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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on March 24, 2008
Enterprise and Society 2008 9(1):213-215; doi:10.1093/es/khn007
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

Stephen Broadberry. Market Services and the Productivity Race, 1850–2000. British Performance in International Perspective

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. xix + 409 pp. ISBN 13 978-0-521-86718-4, $95.00 (cloth)

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This important book comprehensively fills a major gap in the history of Britain's relative economic decline by analyzing shifts in productivity within the nation's service sector. Much of the previous work in this area focused on the performance of industry and agriculture. By the mid-nineteenth century, Britain had a small agricultural sector and USA made major advances as labor moved out of this low-value-added activity. In Germany, the same process took place but at a much slower . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Gordon Boyce

University of Newcastle, NSW


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