The Cambridge economic history of Europe. Volume 8, The industrial economies : the development of economic and social policies / edited by Peter Mathias and Sidney Pollard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mathias, Peter, editor.

Pollard, Sidney, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Europe--Economic conditions.

Europe.

Industrial organization--Europe.

Industrial organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 1243 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Summary:

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge Economic History of Europe is the third of a group of three that cover the economic history of the western world during and since the Industrial Revolution. The main theme of this volume is the role played in the growth of industrial economies by the development of economic and social policies. The volume also discusses these factors in detail for the principal economies, and includes detailed studies of France, Britain, Germany, the United States, Austria-Hungary, the countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Sweden, and Japan.

Contents:

European trade policy, 1815-1914 / by Paul Bairoch

Commercial policy between the wars / by Charles P. Kindleberger

International financial policy and the gold standard, 1870-1914 / by A.G. Ford

The gold standard and national financial policies, 1913-39 / by D.E. Moggridge

Taxation and public finance : Britain, France, and Germany / by D.E. Schremmer

State policy toward labour and labour organizations, 1830-1939 : Anglo-American union movements / by John H.M. Laslett

Labour and the state on the continent, 1800-1939 / by G.V. Rimlinger

British public policy, 1776-1939 / by S.G. Checkland

American economic policy, 1865-1939 / by William Letwin

Economic and social policy in France / by T. Kemp

German economic and social policy, 1815-1939 / by Volker Hentsschel

Economic policy and economic development in Austria-Hungary, 1867-1913 / by Scott M. Eddie

East-central and south-east Europe, 1919-39 / by Alice Teichova

Economic and social policy in the USSR, 1917-41 / by R.W. Davies

Economic and social policy in Sweden, 1850-1939 / by Lennart Jorberg and Olle Kranz

Aspects of economic and social policy in Japan, 1868-1945 / by Seymour A. Broadbridge.

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ISBN:

9781139054508 (ebook)

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