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1. British Enterprise in the 19th Century

[21] “Productivity Change in British Pig Iron, 1870-1939,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 82 (May 1968): 281-96.
 
[100] “Review of Birch's British Iron and Steel,” Business History Review 43 (Fall 1969): 412-14.
 
[123] “The British Iron and Steel Industry” Journal of Economic History 29 (Mar 1969): 173-75.
 
[22] "Did Victorian Britain Fail?”  Economic History Review  23 (Dec 1970): 446-59.
 
[23] (a.) “Victorian Growth: A Rejoinder [to Derek Aldcroft],” Economic History Review 27 (May 1974): 275-77
 
[ 24] (b.) “No It Did Not: A Reply to Craft [to his Comment on 'Did Victorian Britain Fail'?]”  Economic History Review 32 (Nov 1979): 538-41.
 
[25] (c.) “A Counterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It,” pp. 119-126 in McCloskey, Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain 1981 [1993].
 
[26] (d.) “Discussion” (of William Kennedy and William Phillips), Journal of Economic History 42 (Mar 1982): 117-118.
 
"[28a] International Differences in Productivity?  Coal and Steel in America and Britain Before World War I,” in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971), cited above, Chapter. 8, pp. 285-304.
 
[ 29b] “An Exchange with David Landes,” pp. 305-309, in Essays on a Mature Economy (1971).
 
[29] [with L.G. Sandberg] “From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Entrepreneur,” Explorations in Economic History 9 (Fall 1971): 89-108
 
[109] “Review of Sandberg's Lancashire in Decline,” Journal of Political Economy 84 (Feb 1976): 198-200.
 
[113] “Review of Hannah's The Rise of the Corporate Economy: The British Experience,” American Historical Review 82 (Dec, 1977): 1258-59.
 
[116] “Review of Matthews, Feinstein, and Odling-Smee, British Economic Growth 1855-1973,” Times Literary Supplement  462 (May 6, 1983):
 
[121] “Review of Kennedy's Industrial Structure, Capital Markets, and the Origins of British Economic Decline,” Economic History Review 42 (Feb 1989): 141-143.
 
[160a] “Is America in Decline?”  Des Moines Register, Sept 1990.  A revised version in The Key Reporter, 60 (2, Winter 1994-1995): 1-3.  Trans. and distributed by United States Information Service in Bangladesh.
 
[155a] “Review of “Thurow's The Zero-Sum Solution,” Des Moines Register, Jan 9, 1986.
 
[155] “Competitiveness and the Anti-Economics of Decline,” pp. 167-173 in McCloskey, ed., Myths and Morals of U.S. Economic History (Oxford 1992).