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Essays on a Mature Economy: Britain After 1840
By (Author) Donald N. McCloskey
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Economic history
Literary essays
330.941
Paperback
456
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
624g
Debating the promises and limits of the "new economic history," seventeen economists and economic historians look at Great Britain, from the peak of her industrial dominance in 1840 to her eclipse by the surging economies of Germany and the United States. Their discussion brings a new methodological challenge to the field of economic history and a