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Title The export of capital from Britain 1870-1914 / edited with an introduction by A.R. Hall
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Series Routledge library editions. Banking & finance ; v. 16
Routledge library editions. Banking & finance ; v. 16
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; 1 The Pattern of New British Portfolio Foreign Investment, 1865-19I4; 2 Migration and International Investment; 3 The Long Swing: Comparisons and Interactions Between British and American Balance of Payments, 1820-1913; 4 Overseas Lending and Internal Fluctuations, 1870\x=req-\ 1914; 5 Fluctuations in House-Building in Britain and the United States in the Nineteenth Century; 6 Capital Imports and the Composition of Investment in a Borrowing Country; 7 Investment in Canada, 1900-13; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
Summary During the years before 1914 the world's still largely unused resources were brought increasingly within the framework of a single world economy. This process owed much to Britain's ability to export capital on a scale which has never since been equalled. Yet periods of heavy investment overseas alternated with home investment booms that absorbed the greater part of Britain's savings. The reasons for this fluctuation, and the mechanism which linked Britain's economic development with the rest of the world, are still subject to debate. This volume illuminates the problems of the global econo
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Subject Investments, British -- History
Investments -- Great Britain -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Investments & Securities -- General.
Investments
Investments, British
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Hall, Alan Ross.
ISBN 9781136267031
1136267034