Barriers to Growth: English Economic Development from the Norman Conquest to Industrialisation

by Eric Lionel Jones

Book Overview

This book deals sequentially with major impediments to economic growth and their slow dissolution. It is original and quite different from standard economic history, which has always sought for one prime mover of the industrial revolution after another. These supposed positive forces are usually depicted as novel and little reference is made to inertia. Instead the barriers dealt with here run, in the first section, from early misallocations of resources...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303044273X
• ISBN13: 9783030442736
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 153 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.6" x 8.6"