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Descripción Condición: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Nº de ref. del artículo: GRP77171605
Descripción Hardcover. XIV, 157 S. Ehem. Bibliotheksexemplar mit Bib.-Signatur und Stempel. Guter Zustand, ein paar Gebrauchsspuren. Ex-library with stamp and library-signature on spine. Good condition, some traces of use. mm1330 0674228758 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550. Nº de ref. del artículo: 2272299
Descripción Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:0674228758. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9938544
Descripción Condición: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:0674228758. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9970162
Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Cloth hardcover, xiv+ 157 pages, NOT ex-library. Front endpaper partially stuck to front board. Book is clean, untanned, with unmarked text and firm binding; no foxing, no age-spotting. Dust jacket with one small tear. -- It is often alleged that late Victorian businessmen in Britain displayed little of the vigor of their fathers in competition with the new industrial powers of the late nineteenth century, Germany and the United States. This allegation has been the foundation for a great many interpretations of the end of British domination over the world's economic life and of the economic difficulties that Britain has faced subsequently. The British iron and steel industry is taken traditionally as the prime example of entrepreneurial decline. The author shows, however, that businessmen in the industry performed on most counts as well as their German and American counterparts. The lack of evidence of entrepreneurial failure in the industry casts serious doubt on the importance of the entrepreneurial factor in Britain's relative decline. It suggests, indeed, that the supposed failure was a mere reflex of Britain's early attainment of economic maturity and the contemporaneous drive to maturity of Germany and the US. McCloskey uses relatively uncomplicated economic tools to establish these points. The central tool is the measurement of total factor productivity in the iron and steel industry in Britain and abroad. It is supplemented by analyses of supply and demand (to remove the influence of slowly growing demand at home from the record of the British industry): of the profitability of adopting the basic open hearth process of steelmaking (to show that the slowness of Britain to adopt it - which has been the keystone of the case for entrepreneurial failure - was economically rational); and of the competitiveness of the industry's markets (to validate use of these simple tools). The book is based on a thorough study of the trade newspapers of the industry, its scientific journals, its statistical annuals, and the many reports of the British government and contemporary observers on its activities. It combines, therefore, the virtues of the 'old' and the 'new' economic history. And although the book is historical, its conclusions are relevant to any study of economic growth past or present, in particular to the study of the role of entrepreneurship. This book, a revision of Author's Ph.D. dissertation, was awarded the David A. Wells Prize for 1970-71. Contents: 1. Iron and Steel Industry & the Hypothesis of Entrepreneurial Failure (Historiographic Career of the Hypothesis of Failure; Quantitative Evidence for Britain as a Whole; Relevance of the Experience in Iron & Steel; Assessing Entrepreneurial Performance in Iron & Steel); 2. Market Structure of the Industry (Cycles in Monopoly Power, 1870 to 1913; Monopoly Power among Regions of the Country; Competition & the Hypothesis of Failure); 3. Industry's Consumers & the Industry's Growth (Slow Growth of Demand; Substitution of Steel for Iron); 4. "Most Notable Single Instance" of Entrepreneurial Failure: Neglect of the Basic Process (Was the Neglect of Basic Ores Irrational; Shift to Basic Steel); 5. Productivity Change, 1870-1913 (Material-Intensity & Capital-Lightness of the Industry; Pig Iron; Bessemer Steel Rails; Open Hearth Steel Ship Plates); 6. Was Productivity Change More Rapid in the American Industry (Productivity Change in American Iron & Steel; Slow Growth & Antique Technology in Steel); 7. American & British Productivity before 1913 (Levels of Productivity; How Well British Entrepreneurs Performed); Appendices: A. Sources for Estimating UK Gross National Product & Inputs of Capital and Labor; B. Prices of British Iron & Steel; C. Input & Output Structure of the British Iron & Steel Industry in 1907; D. Sources & Methods for Productivity Measurement in Pig Iron; Index. Nº de ref. del artículo: 004119
Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. NO JACKET. HARDBACK 1973. 1st printing. 21.5x14cm. xvi+157 pages with index. Spine is intact with bold black lettering. SOME PENCIL UNDERLINING. SOME PENCIL NOTES IN THE MARGINS. Clean & tight. Flat pages. NO JACKET. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref crv/26. Nº de ref. del artículo: 044113