The economic organisation of England : An Outline History / With three supplementary chapters by G. C. Allen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Longmans, Green and Co LTD, 1954.Edition: New Impression edDescription: vii, 271 pages ; 19 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.942
LOC classification:
  • HC 253 .A8 1949
Online resources:
Contents:
Lecture I. The English agrarian system: the manor as starting point -- Lecture II. The stages of industrial evolution: the gild as starting point -- Lecture III. The beginnings of modern farming: the break-up of the manor -- Lecture IV. The rise of foreign trade: the advent of capital and investment -- Lecture V. Domestic industry and Tudor nationalism -- Lecture VI. Agricultural estates and English self-government -- Lecture VII. The Industrial Revolution and Freedom of contract -- Lecture VIII. Joint stock and the evolution of Capitalism.
Supplemental chapters by G.C. Allen -- Chapter I. Economic instability and the unemployment problem -- Chapter II. State intervention and the decline in competition (i) -- Chapter III. State intervention and the decline in competition (ii).
Summary: "In the first edition of this book Sir William Ashley carried the history of the economic organisation of England down to the years immediately before 1914. In 1935, at the request of the publishers, I [G.C. Allen] contributed an additional chapter which dealt with the outstanding economic changes of the intervening period. I have now replaced my original contribution by three supplementary chapters which are intended to cover the period from 1914 to the present time [1949]" -- Preface to Third Edition
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Includes "suggestions for further reading" (pages 245-262) and index.

Lecture I. The English agrarian system: the manor as starting point -- Lecture II. The stages of industrial evolution: the gild as starting point -- Lecture III. The beginnings of modern farming: the break-up of the manor -- Lecture IV. The rise of foreign trade: the advent of capital and investment -- Lecture V. Domestic industry and Tudor nationalism -- Lecture VI. Agricultural estates and English self-government -- Lecture VII. The Industrial Revolution and Freedom of contract -- Lecture VIII. Joint stock and the evolution of Capitalism.

Supplemental chapters by G.C. Allen -- Chapter I. Economic instability and the unemployment problem -- Chapter II. State intervention and the decline in competition (i) -- Chapter III. State intervention and the decline in competition (ii).

"In the first edition of this book Sir William Ashley carried the history of the economic organisation of England down to the years immediately before 1914. In 1935, at the request of the publishers, I [G.C. Allen] contributed an additional chapter which dealt with the outstanding economic changes of the intervening period. I have now replaced my original contribution by three supplementary chapters which are intended to cover the period from 1914 to the present time [1949]" -- Preface to Third Edition

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