British and Public Policy 17761939
Subtitle: An Economic, Social and Political Perspective
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 29, 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780521245968
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Economic policy; Business & Economics / Economic History; Social policy; Politics and government; Public Policy; Great Britain
First sentence: The domestic economy over which the British parliament presided after 1776 was being remade from within by the atomistic decision of individuals and groups of individuals who, secure in the state's defence of property rights and equality before the law, were busy creating new productive and trading enterprises, embodying a new range of technology and inducing a new set of economic and social relationships.