Britain's Political Economies
Title | Britain's Political Economies PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Hoppit |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2017-05-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107015251 |
An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.
Britain's Political Economies
Title | Britain's Political Economies PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Hoppit |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-05-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781316649909 |
The Glorious Revolution of 1688-9 transformed the role of parliament in Britain and its empire. Large numbers of statutes resulted, with most concerning economic activity. Julian Hoppit here provides the first comprehensive account of these acts, revealing how government affected economic life in this critical period prior to the Industrial Revolution, and how economic interests across Britain used legislative authority for their own benefit. Through a series of case studies, he shows how ideas, interests, and information influenced statutory action in practice. Existing frameworks such as 'mercantilism' and the 'fiscal-military state' fail to capture the full richness and structural limitations of how political power influenced Britain's precocious economic development in the period. Instead, finely grained statutory action was the norm, guided more by present needs than any grand plan, with regulatory ambitions constrained by administrative limitations, and some parts of Britain benefiting much more than others.
Governing the Economy
Title | Governing the Economy PDF eBook |
Author | Peter A. Hall |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780195205237 |
Analyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.
World, Class, Britain
Title | World, Class, Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Calum R. Paton |
Publisher | Palgrave MacMillan |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Free enterprise |
ISBN |
"The second part of the book, as well as sketching an economic alternative, investigates how political theory and ethical concepts can help us today to re-establish the search for human freedom and a 'balanced' society."--BOOK JACKET.
The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920-1950
Title | The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain, 1920-1950 PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Millward |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2002-04-18 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521892568 |
In this 1998 book, experts in British industrial history analyse the causes of nationalisation in the 1940s.
The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914
Title | The Political Economy of British Historical Experience, 1688-1914 PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Winch |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780197262726 |
How did Britain emerge as a world power and later as the world's first industrial society? What policies, cultural practices, and institutions were responsible for this outcome? How were the inevitable disruptions to social and political life coped with? This innovative volume illustrates the contribution of economic thinking (scientific, official and popular) to the public understanding of British economic experience over the period 1688-1914. Political economy has frequently served as the favourite mode of public discourse when analysing or justifying British economic policies, performance and institutions. These sixteen essays, centering on the peculiarities of the British experience, are grouped under five main themes: foreign assessments of that experience; land tenure; empire and free trade; fiscal and monetary regimes; and the poor law and welfare. This is a collaborative endeavour by historians with established reputations in their field, which will appeal to all those interested in the current development of these branches of historical scholarship.
The Political Economy of Modern Britain
Title | The Political Economy of Modern Britain PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew W. Cox |
Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing |
Pages | 296 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Describing key political and economic decisions or events, this book discusses Britain's economic decline in the post war period. It offers an alternative approach to improving its performance, known as the strategic alignment of national and corporate competitiveness.