Market Services and the Productivity Race, 18502000

Market Services and the Productivity Race, 18502000 by Stephen Broadberry

Now that services account for such a dominant part of economic activity, it has become apparent that achieving high levels of productivity in the economy requires high levels of productivity in services. This book offers a major reassessment of Britain's comparative productivity performance over the last 150 years. Whereas in the mid-nineteenth century Britain had higher productivity than the United States and Germany, by 1990 both countries had overtaken Britain. The key to achieving high productivity was the 'industrialisation' of market services, which involved both the serving of business and the provision of mass-market consumer services in a more business like fashion. Comparative productivity varied with the uneven spread of industrialised service sector provision across sectors. Stephen Broadberry provides a quantitative overview of these trends, together with a qualitative account of developments within individual sectors, including shipping, railways, road and air transport, telecommunications, wholesale and retail distribution, banking, and finance.

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Stephen Broadberry is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. His recent books include The Productivity Race: British Manufacturing in International Perspective (1997) and, as editor with Mark Harrison, The Economics of World War I (2005).

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ISBN 13	9780521123143
ISBN 10	0521123143
Title	Market Services and the Productivity Race, 18502000
Author	Stephen Broadberry
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Year published	2009-11-12
Number of pages	432
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