The people and the British economy, 1830-1914
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The people and the British economy, 1830-1914
(OPUS)
Oxford University Press, 1997
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [200]-207) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The inspiration for this book comes from the words of Adam Smith: `Consumption is the sole end of and purpose of all production....' This book concentrates, in that spirit, on people rather on things; it describes the overall income and wealth of Britain, its growth, and how that income and wealth was produced by and distributed between different people in the population. Population growth has a central place, as do the changes in home and workplace, in the
transformation of the lives of successive generations in Victorian and Edwardian Britain.
Between 1830 and 1914 Britain became the world's major trading nation, carrier of the majority of the world's goods, by far the largest investor overseas, and the centre of the world's financial system. It was an exceptional time in the history of the country and one to which many look back, even a hundred years later, with nostalgia. This book seeks to describe and assess what was achieved in those eighty-five years.
Table of Contents
- CONCLUSION
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. INCOME AND WEALTH
- 3. UNCERTAINTY AND RISK
- 4. POPULATION CHANGE
- 5. HOUSEHOLDS: CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT
- 6. CHANGING WORKPLACES
- 7. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
- 8. MANUFACTURING
- 9. EXTRACTING
- 10. NOT MAKING, DIGGING, OR GROWING
- 11. THE OPEN ECONOMY
- 12. ECONOMIC RULES
- CONCLUSION
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. INCOME AND WEALTH
- 3. UNCERTAINTY AND RISK
- 4. POPULATION CHANGE
- 5. HOUSEHOLDS: CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT
- 6. CHANGING WORKPLACES
- 7. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
- 8. MANUFACTURING
- 9. EXTRACTING
- 10. NOT MAKING, DIGGING, OR GROWING
- 11. THE OPEN ECONOMY
- 12. ECONOMIC RULES
- CONCLUSION
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. INCOME AND WEALTH
- 3. UNCERTAINTY AND RISK
- 4. POPULATION CHANGE
- 5. HOUSEHOLDS: CONSUMPTION AND INVESTMENT
- 6. CHANGING WORKPLACES
- 7. FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
- 8. MANUFACTURING
- 9. EXTRACTING
- 10. NOT MAKING, DIGGING, OR GROWING
- 11. THE OPEN ECONOMY
- 12. ECONOMIC RULES
- CONCLUSION
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