Deceleration in the Eighteenth-Century British Economy

Originally published in 1976 the theme of this book was that the advance of the British economy between 1660 and 1780 was not continuous and, contrary to a widely held view, there was a pause or at best retarded growth between about 1725 and 1750. Substantiated by reference to the development of a number of industries and regions, the author argues that labour's attitude to work, demographic chang...