Economic Performance
Sydney Checkland, 19 April 1984
The Victorian Economy
by François Crouzet, translated by Anthony Forster.
Methuen, 430 pp., £18, June 1982,0 416 31110 5 Show More
by François Crouzet, translated by Anthony Forster.
Methuen, 430 pp., £18, June 1982,
British Economic Growth 1856-1973
by R.C.O. Matthews, C.H. Feinstein and J.C. Odling-Smee.
Oxford, 712 pp., £37.50, October 1982,0 19 828453 5 Show More
by R.C.O. Matthews, C.H. Feinstein and J.C. Odling-Smee.
Oxford, 712 pp., £37.50, October 1982,
The Cambridge Economic History of Europe. Vol. VII: The Industrial Economies: Capital, Labour and Enterprise
edited by Peter Mathias.
Cambridge, 832 pp., £13.50, June 1982,0 521 28800 2 Show More
edited by Peter Mathias.
Cambridge, 832 pp., £13.50, June 1982,
“... and imposes its own exclusions. These are carefully pointed out and demonstrated by Matthews, Feinstein and Odling-Smee, and by Solow and Temin in the Cambridge volume. Immeasurables tend to become residuals (and hence very difficult to relate to anything real). Solow and Temin are frank: ‘The usual routine, in the absence of anything better, is to ... ”
