The Growth of English Industry and Commerce
The Growth of English Industry and Commerce
In Modern Times
Part 2
4th Edition
W. Cunningham
February 2012
2. Laissez Faire
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The Growth of English Industry and Commerce, published in its first edition in 1882, was a large-scale economic study by the historian William Cunningham (1849–1919). The ambitious work ultimately grew to encompass two volumes, divided into three parts, and reissued over a period of more than forty years in several revised and expanded editions. This book contains the 1907 fourth edition of the second part of Volume II, dealing with laissez faire in commerce. It covers the period of economic history from about the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century.
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9781107679184
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Table of Contents
- Part VII. Laissez Faire:
- 1. The workshop of the world
- 2. The introduction of machinery in the textile trades
- 3. Aggravation of the evils of transition
- 4. Human welfare
- 5. Faculties for transport
- Postscript
- Appendix A. Wages assessments
- Appendix B. Enclosure and depopulation in 1607
- Appendix C. The action of James I and Charles I in regard to trade and the colonies
- Appendix D. Colonial and commercial administration under Charles II
- Appendix E. Complaints from the counties, 1650
- Appendix F. Statistics of progress, with diagrams showing (i) the increase of revenue and of the charge on the debt, and (ii) the growth of population and of the charge for the poor-rate
- Appendix G. Some difficulties in the interpretation of historical statistics
- Bibliographical index
- General index.
