British Tradition in Industrial Health

Understanding Tradition in British Politics and Beyond

Please do not cite without permission The concept of 'tradition' is used in a range of different ways within studies of British politics. Despite this there have been only a few attempts to theorise notions of tradition within British political science. Furthermore the different concepts of tradition forwarded by conservatives, interpretivists and realists have each been contested. This paper e...

The British Industrial Revolution

The Marshallian Tradition of Industrial Economics in Oxford: 1940s – 1970s

Preliminary version 1 Browsing through Oxford students " economics reading lists during the inter-war period; it rapidly becomes apparent that Marshall " s theory formed a key part of economics syllabi at the time. It seems highly likely that Marshall " s Principles of Economics prevailed as the dominant theory of industry and of competition during these two decades. However, the Principles of ...

Real Wages in the British Industrial

The paper compares Feinstein’s and Clark’s consumer price and real wage indices for the British industrial revolution. The sources for their weights and component price series are evaluated. While some of Clark’s innovations are improvements, many of his changes degrade the price index. A new price index is developed using the best components of Clark’s and Feinstein’s. This index is much close...

The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective

During the past two decades, Robert Allen’s researches into English agriculture have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the nature and pace of rising agricultural productivity between the late middle ages and the 19th century. More recently, Allen has turned his attention to the study of real wages as a measure of economic development and begun investigating the progress of wages in ot...