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The economic future in historical perspective / edited by Paul A. David & Mark Thomas.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.Description: xvi, 528 p.: ill.; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780197263471
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330/.01/12 22
LOC classification:
  • HB 3730 .E26 2003
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Contents:
Introduction : Thinking historically about challenging economic issues / Paul A. David and Mark Thomas -- The industrious revolution and economic growth, 1650-1830 / Jan De Vries -- English apprenticeship : a neglected factor in the first industrial revolution / Jane Humphries -- Human capital and productivity performance : Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990 / Stephen Broadberry -- General purpose technologies and surges in productivity : historical reflections on the future of the ICT revolution / Paul A. David and Gavin Wright -- Technological systems and comparative systems of innovation : from historical performance to future policy guidelines / Nick von Tunzelmann -- The East Asian escape from economic backwardness : retrospect and prospect / Nicholas Crafts -- The Russian transition through the historical looking-glass : gradual versus abrupt decontrol of economic systems in Britain and Russia / Christopher Davis and James Foreman-Peck -- Rational resistance to land privatization : the behaviour of Russia's rural producers in response to agrarian reforms, 1861-2000 / Carol Leonard -- Understanding the past to reshape the future : problems of South Africa's transition / Francis Wilson -- Lessons from Italy's monetary unification (1862-1880) for the euro and Europe's single market / Leandro Conte, Gianni Toniolo and Giovanni Vecchi -- Ideology and the shadow of history : a perspective on the Great Depression / Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin -- Economic welfare measurements and human well-being / Avner Offer -- The human body in Britain : past and future / Roderick Floud -- Height and the high life : what future for a tall story? / Timothy Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth --Producing health in past and present : the changing roles of scientific and alternative medicine / Anne Digby and Sheila Ryan Johansson -- An old poor law for the new Europe? Reconciling local solidarity with labour mobility in early modern England / Peter M. Solar and Richard M. Smith -- Paying for old age : past, present, future / Mark Thomas and Paul Johnson.
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HB 172 .M39 2002 Microeconomics : HB 615 .H65 1992 Entrepreneurship : HB 615 .P46 1985 Intrapreneuring : HB 3730 .E26 2003 The economic future in historical perspective / HC 59.15 .K45 1998 New rules for the new economy : HC 59.72 .I55H44 2018 Information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) / HC 59.72 .I55H44 2018 Information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) /

Revised papers from an international symposium held in Oxford, 1-3 July 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : Thinking historically about challenging economic issues / Paul A. David and Mark Thomas -- The industrious revolution and economic growth, 1650-1830 / Jan De Vries -- English apprenticeship : a neglected factor in the first industrial revolution / Jane Humphries -- Human capital and productivity performance : Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990 / Stephen Broadberry -- General purpose technologies and surges in productivity : historical reflections on the future of the ICT revolution / Paul A. David and Gavin Wright -- Technological systems and comparative systems of innovation : from historical performance to future policy guidelines / Nick von Tunzelmann -- The East Asian escape from economic backwardness : retrospect and prospect / Nicholas Crafts -- The Russian transition through the historical looking-glass : gradual versus abrupt decontrol of economic systems in Britain and Russia / Christopher Davis and James Foreman-Peck -- Rational resistance to land privatization : the behaviour of Russia's rural producers in response to agrarian reforms, 1861-2000 / Carol Leonard -- Understanding the past to reshape the future : problems of South Africa's transition / Francis Wilson -- Lessons from Italy's monetary unification (1862-1880) for the euro and Europe's single market / Leandro Conte, Gianni Toniolo and Giovanni Vecchi -- Ideology and the shadow of history : a perspective on the Great Depression / Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin -- Economic welfare measurements and human well-being / Avner Offer -- The human body in Britain : past and future / Roderick Floud -- Height and the high life : what future for a tall story? / Timothy Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth --Producing health in past and present : the changing roles of scientific and alternative medicine / Anne Digby and Sheila Ryan Johansson -- An old poor law for the new Europe? Reconciling local solidarity with labour mobility in early modern England / Peter M. Solar and Richard M. Smith -- Paying for old age : past, present, future / Mark Thomas and Paul Johnson.

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