1st Edition

Growth and Fluctuations 1870-1913 (Routledge Revivals)

By W. Arthur Lewis Copyright 1978
    338 Pages
    by Routledge

    338 Pages
    by Routledge

    In this title, first published in 1978, Sir Arthur Lewis considers the development of the international economy in the forty years leading up to the First World War, with the adoption of the gold standard, a rapid growth in world trade, the opening up of the continents by the railways, vast emigration from Europe, India and China, and large-scale international investment.

    The book contrasts the relationship between prices, industrial fluctuations, agricultural output, and the stock of monetary gold, considering both the varying patterns of leading economies and then their net combined effect on the rest of the world. This is history which illuminates the contemporary economic climate in which it was written but also casts light upon our current economic crisis.

    Part 1: Prospectus  Part 2: The Juglar Pattern  Part 3: The Kondratiev Price Swing  Part 4: The Check to Real Wages  Part 5:The British Climacteric  Part 6: The Rate of Growth  Part 7: Challenge  Part 8: Response  Part 9: Epilogue  Appendix 1: British Statistics  Appendix 2: Core Industrial Production  Appendix 3: Miscellaneous Statistics Appendix 4: World Supply of Wheat

    Biography

    Lewis, W. Arthur