The economic future in historical perspective/
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Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Thinking historically about challenging economic issues / Paul A. David and Mark Thomas
- The industrious revolution and economic growth, 1650-1830 / Jan De Vries
- English apprenticeship : a neglected factor in the first industrial revolution / Jane Humphries
- Human capital and productivity performance : Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990 / Stephen Broadberry
- General purpose technologies and surges in productivity : historical reflections on the future of the ICT revolution / Paul A. David and Gavin Wright
- Technological systems and comparative systems of innovation : from historical performance to future policy guidelines / Nick von Tunzelmann
- The East Asian escape from economic backwardness : retrospect and prospect / Nicholas Crafts
- 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
- Rational resistance to land privatization : the behaviour of Russiaʹs rural producers in response to agrarian reforms, 1861-2000 / Carol Leonard
- Understanding the past to reshape the future : problems of South Africaʹs transition / Francis Wilson
- Lessons from Italyʹs monetary unification (1862-1880) for the euro and Europeʹs single market / Leandro Conte, Gianni Toniolo and Giovanni Vecchi
- Ideology and the shadow of history : a perspective on the Great Depression / Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin
- Economic welfare measurements and human well-being / Avner Offer
- The human body in Britain : past and future / Roderick Floud
- Height and the high life : what future for a tall story? / Timothy Leunig and Hans-Joachim Voth
- Producing health in past and present : the changing roles of scientific and alternative medicine / Anne Digby and Sheila Ryan Johansson
- 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
- Paying for old age : past, present, future / Mark Thomas and Paul Johnson