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| Tekijä: | Booth, A. |
| Otsikko: | The manufacturing failure hypothesis and the performance of British industry during the long boom |
| Lehti: | Economic History Review
2003 : FEB, VOL. 56:1, p. 1-33 |
| Asiasana: | Economic history Manufacturing Performance appraisal United Kingdom |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | Much of the literature on British industrial performance during the long boom, 1950-73, has emphasized competitive weakness, general ineptitude, and deindustrialization. A manufacturing failure hypothesis (MFH) has taken firm root. Can the British really have been so bad at manufacturing? This article proposes two answers. First, if German performance is the yardstick, British industrial productivity growth was much better during the long boom than has commonly been supposed. Second, there are within the MFH fundamental flaws that leave the most commonly made criticisms of British industry on insecure empirical and analytical foundations. |
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