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Institutional Rigidities and Britain's Industrial Decline - The Decline of the British Economy. Edited by Bernard Elbaum and William Lazonick · New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press, 1987. vii + 310 pp. Tables, notes, bibliographies, and index. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $17.95. - Modernization Frustrated: The Politics of Industrial Decline in Britain since 1900. By Scott Newton and Dilwyn Porter · Winchester, Mass.: Unwin Wyman Inc., 1988. xv + 224 pp. Tables, notes, selected bibliography, and index. Cloth, $39.95; paper, $14.95. - Enterprise, Management and Innovation in British Business, 1914–80. Edited by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines and Geoffrey Jones · London: Frank Cass, 1988. x + 118 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $25.00.

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Maurice W. Kirby
Maurice W. Kirby
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Maurice W. Kirby is lecturer in economic history at the University of Lancaster.
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Business History Review , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , Winter 1989 , pp. 930 - 936
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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1989

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