The economic future in historical perspective
By: edited by Paul A. David & Mark Thomas.
Contributors: David, Paul A.; Thomas, Mark, 1954-; British Academy.
Publisher: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
Subjects: Economic forecasting -- Congresses.; Economic history -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Revised papers from an international symposium held in Oxford, 1-3 July 1999.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Thinking historically about challenging economic issues / Paul A. David and Mark Thomas; title: The industrious revolution and economic growth, 1650-1830 / Jan De Vries; title: English apprenticeship : a neglected factor in the first industrial revolution / Jane Humphries; title: Human capital and productivity performance : Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990 / Stephen Broadberry; title: General purpose technologies and surges in productivity : historical reflections on the future of the ICT revolution / Paul A. David and Gavin Wright; title: Technological systems and comparative systems of innovation : from historical performance to future policy guidelines / Nick von Tunzelmann; title: The East Asian escape from economic backwardness : retrospect and prospect / Nicholas Crafts; title: 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; title: Rational resistance to land privatization : the behaviour of Russia's rural producers in response to agrarian reforms, 1861-2000 / Carol Leonard; title: Understanding the past to reshape the future : problems of South Africa's transition / Francis Wilson; title: Lessons from Italy's monetary unification (1862-1880) for the euro and Europe's single market / Leandro Conte, Gianni Toniolo and Giovanni Vecchi; title: Ideology and the shadow of history : a perspective on the Great Depression / Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin; title: Economic welfare measurements and human well-being / Avner Offer; title: The human body in Britain : past and future / Roderick Floud; title: Height and the high life : what future for a tall story? / Timothy Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth; title: Producing health in past and present : the changing roles of scientific and alternative medicine / Anne Digby and Sheila Ryan Johansson; title: 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; title: Paying for old age : past, present, future / Mark Thomas and Paul Johnson.