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The State and Business in the Major Powers: An Economic History 1815-1939

The State and Business in the Major Powers: An Economic History 1815-1939

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

Business GeneralEconomicsGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0415627907
ISBN13: 9780415627900
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Feb 28 2013
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the state emerged as a major player in the economies of the Western World.

This important new volume provides an economic history for the period 1815-1939 of state/business relations in the major powers: France, Germany, Japan, Russia, UK and the USA. The book challenges the traditional story that the scale of state intervention reflected the degree to which each country was ideologically committed to laissez-faire, and which also tended to assume that governments were interested in economic growth and raising average living standards. Robert Millward gives a rather different perspective, arguing that the scale of state intervention and the differences across countries were motivated more by considerations of external defence and internal unification than by any notions of promoting economic growth or adherence to laissez-faire.

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