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- Title
PERIODICAL LITERATURE: (iv) Since 1800 (Book).
- Authors
Thompson, F. M. L.
- Abstract
This article presents various papers related to economic and industrial history, published in previous issues of different journals. In the paper "Overseas: Lending and Internal Fluctuations, 1870-1914," A.G. Ford discusses, within a theoretical framework, the mechanism of the transfer of resources overseas, and concludes that overseas lending itself largely generated the requisite balance of payments surplus on current account, by damping down home consumption and hence imports, and by stimulating exports. Rising overseas issues therefore meant rising unemployment and falling imports, and vice versa. H.W. Richardson has a go at the same field with the paper "Retardation in Britain's Industrial Growth, 1870-1913." He argues that the slowing down in the rate of growth was caused by an abnormally low rate of structural change within industry, because there was a dearth of new activities capable of taking over as leading sectors which could create whole new growth industries that could more than cancel out the stagnation of the old staples.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; ECONOMIC history; HISTORY of industries; BUSINESS cycles; INTERNATIONAL trade; INDUSTRIALIZATION
- Publication
Economic History Review, 1966, Vol 19, Issue 2, p444
- ISSN
0013-0117
- Publication type
Article