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Machine tools are vital to our industrial, metalusing society. This book is the first history of the British machine-tool industry during an important period of its development, a time when it played a crucial part in the transformation of the British economy. The author discusses the structure of the industry, its performance in international trade, and, through an analysis of the voluminous records of one firm, its efficiency and productivity. This discussion is placed within the wider context of current controversies about the behaviour of the British economy during the "Great Depression" of the later nineteenth century, and its conclusions do not support pessimistic views of the performance of British industry. The book is also intended as a contribution to the explanation of the process of technological change, a problem of increasing interest to economists and economic historians. It both uses and criticises several current methods of explaining technological change, and emphasises the importance of considering the structure of an industry and the detail of decisions taken by individual entrepreneurs. The conclusions are largely based on quantitative evidence, much of it never previously used in economic history, and illustrate the potentialities of the use of computer data processing, statistical methods and econometrics.

History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 1800-1899 --- 338 <09> <410> --- Machine-tool industry --- -Machinery industry --- Economische geschiedenis--?<410> --- History --- History. --- -Economische geschiedenis--?<410> --- 338 <09> <410> Economische geschiedenis--?<410> --- -338 <09> <410> Economische geschiedenis--?<410> --- Machinery industry --- Arts and Humanities --- Machines-outils --- Industrie et commerce --- Histoire.

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Economic historians in Britain are making increasing use of quantitative methods in their subject. This book sets out to help them, both by reprinting some outstanding essays in quantitative economic history and by providing a simple introduction to the techniques used. Sponsored by the economic History Society, this book is the first such collection of essays on British economic history to appear and it will therefore appeal directly to the increasing number of students taking courses in the methodology of economic history and in statistics applied to historical problems. The essays are selected from all periods of British history from the fourteenth century onwards. Among the techniques used in the essays and explained in the introduction are correlation and regression analysis, time series analysis, the analysis of contingency tables, price and wage relatives, and measures of inequality.

Econometrics. --- Economic history. --- 338 <09> --- Economic history --- -Econometrics --- -Economics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Economische geschiedenis --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Econometrics --- Addresses, essays, lectures. --- Economische geschiedenis. --- -Economische geschiedenis --- 338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- -338 <09> Economische geschiedenis --- Economics, Mathematical --- Economic History --- Histoire économique. --- Économétrie.

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History --- Statistical methods. --- Mathematical statistics --- History as a science --- Historiometry --- Statistical methods --- Methodology --- History - Statistical methods --- Histoire --- Statistiques --- Methodologie --- Etude et enseignement (superieur)

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around the world to produce a set of volumes which are both a lucid textbook for students and an authoritative guide to the subject. The text pays particular attention to the explanation of quantitative and theory-based enquiry, but all forms of historical research are used to provide a comprehensive account of the development of the British economy. Volume II examines the period 1860-1939 when British economic power was at its height. It will be an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history, economics and other social sciences.

Great Britain --- Economic conditions

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain provides a readable and comprehensive survey of the economic history of Britain since industrialisation, based on the most up-to-date research into the subject. Roderick Floud and Paul Johnson have assembled a team of fifty leading scholars from around the world to produce a set of volumes which are both a lucid textbook for students and an authoritative guide to the subject. The text pays particular attention to the explanation of quantitative and theory-based enquiry, but all forms of historical research are used to provide a comprehensive account of the development of the British economy. Volume I covers the period 1700-1860 when Britain led the world in the process of industrialisation. It will be an invaluable guide for undergraduate and postgraduate students in history, economics and other social sciences.

Industrialization --- History --- Great Britain --- Economic conditions