Economic Maturity and Entrepreneurial Decline: British Iron and Steel, 1870-1913

by Donald N. McCloskey

It is often alleged that late Victorian businessmen in Britain displayed little of the vigor of their fathers in competition with the new industrial powers of the late nineteenth century, Germany and the United States. This allegation has been the foundation for a great many interpretations of the end of British domination over the world's economic life and of the economic difficulties that Britain has faced subsequently.The British iron and steel...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674228758
• ISBN13: 9780674228757
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 157 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.5"