Enterprise and Trade in Victorian Britain: Essays in Historical Economics

• Book cover
• Foreword and Preface

  Part One: The Method of Historical Economics

  1. The Achievements of the Cliometric School
  2. Does the Past Have Useful Economics?

   

  Part Two: Enterprise in Late Victorian Britain

3. From Damnation to Redemption: Judgments on the Late Victorian Enterpreneur (with Lars G. Sandberg)
4. International Differences in Productivity? Coal and Streel in America and Britain before World War I (with an exchange with David Landes)
5. Did Victorian Britain Fail?
6. Controversies

   McCloskey on Victorian Growth: A Comment by Derek H. Aldcroft

   Victorian Growth : A Rejoinder to Derek Aldcroft

   A Couterfactual Dialogue with William Kennedy on Late Victorian Failure or the Lack of It

   Victorian Briatian Did Fail by N.F.R.Crafts

   No It Did Not: A reply to Crafts

Part Three: Britain In The World Economy, 1846-1913

7. From Dependence to Autonomy: Judgements on Trade as as Engine of British Growth
8. Magnanimous Albion: Free Trade and British National Income, 1841-1881
9. Britain's Loss from Foreign Industrialization: A Provisional Estimate
10. How the Gold Standard Worked, 1880-1913 (with J. Ricard Zecher)

• Index

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