The British Economy in the Twentieth Century
It is commonplace to assume that the twentieth-century British economy has failed, falling from the world's richest industrial country in 1900 to one of the poorest nations of Western Europe in 2000. Manufacturing is inevitably the centre of this failure: British industrial managers cannot organise the proverbial 'knees-up' in a brewery; British workers are idle and greedy; its financial system is uniquely geared to the short term interests of the City rather than of manufacturing; its economic policies areperverse for industry; and its culture is fundamentally anti-industrial. There is a grain of truth in each of these statements, but only…
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- ISBN: 978-0-333-69841-9
- EAN: 9780333698419
- Produktnummer: 23246952
- Verlag: Springer Nature EN
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Masse: 1 Ex.; H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm 0 g
- Abbildungen: Book
- Sonstiges: Lower undergraduate
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ALAN BOOTH is Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter.
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