Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 (Routledge Revivals) : Two Paths to the Twentieth Century.

First published in 1978, Professor O'Brien's Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a controversial place in the debate on the question of French retardation in the 19th century and a...

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Main Author: O'Brien, Patrick
Other Authors: Keyder, Caglar
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge revivals.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)

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505 0 |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Introduction and Acknowledgements; PART ONE HISTORIOGRAPHY, DATA AND METHOD; 1 Definitions and Historiography of Retardation; 2 Data and Methods; 2.1 Data; 2.2 Services and commodity output; 2.3 Periodisation and cycles; 2.4 The rate of exchange; Appendix A: The Exchange Rates; Appendix B: Sensitivity Analysis for 1856; Appendix C: Price Correlations; PART TWO WELFARE; 3 Per Capita Incomes and Real Wages; 3.1 Domestic commodity output; 3.2 Domestic commodity output per capita; 3.3 Per capita commodity flow and foreign trade 
505 8 |a 3.4 Real wages and the structure of employment3.5 Conclusions; PART THREE PRODUCTIVITY; 4 The Productivity of Labour and Structural Change; 4.1 Concepts and data; 4.2 Global productivity and the quality of labour; 4.3 Labour productivities in agriculture and industry; 4.4 Structural change; 5 Agriculture; 5.1 Labour productivity; 5.2 The quantity and quality of land; 5.3 Product mix and value added per hectare; 5.4 Farm animals as capital goods; 5.5 Output per hectare in physical terms; 5.6 The systems of tenure; 5.7 Conclusions; 6 Industry; 6.1 Estimates of labour productivity 
505 8 |a 6.2 Product mix6.3 Demand and specialisation; 6.4 Labour supplies; 6.5 Conclusions; Appendix D: A Model of Industrial Development for Britain and France 1780-1914; Conclusions; Bibliography of Official Sources; Index 
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