Titlebook: European Historical Statistics, 1750-1970; B. R. Mitchell Book 1975 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1975 Eu

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Agriculture, countries of western Europe, and the second half saw their extension to eastern Europe. In some ways, perhaps, it is surprising that Britain, which was the first country to face difficulties in feeding itself without substantial imports, during the Napoleonic Wars, was not the first to collect agri

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Industry,tion consist of physical output and external trade statistics for major commodities which possess an adequate degree of homogeneity to allow aggregation and meaningful comparisons between countries. Inevitably, these are mostly basic commodities rather than finished goods; yarn and cloth rather than

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External Trade,countries than does any other economic activity. Some statistics, indeed, go back to mediaeval times. Unfortunately, however, it was the standard practice until some time in the nineteenth century, to record the aggregate values of trade in terms of officially fixed values for each commodity (or, at

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Prices,er, is intractable in the extreme, and it has been decided to include none of it in this work. Instead, there are two sets of indices, based on this material but reducing it to some sort of readily comprehensible order. It was felt that annual average prices, in local currency, of (say) a kilogram o

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