British Economic Growth, 1270-1870
Details:
- Author(s) Broadberry, S N, Bruce Campbell, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton & Bas van Leeuwen
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2015
- Pages 461pp
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Productivity
- Name Comparative international studies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Scholarly definitive work reconstructing 'Britain's national accounts for the first time right back into the thirteenth century to show what really happened quantitatively during the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution'. Chapters include: 'Historical national income accounting'; 'Population'; 'Agricultural land use'; 'Agricultural production'; 'Industrial and service-sector production'; 'GDP and GDP per head'; 'Real wage rates and GDP per head'; 'Consumption'; 'Social distribution of income'; 'Labour productivity'; 'Britain in an international context'; 'Epilogue - British economic growth, 1270-1870'