Industry and Trade a Study of Industrial Technique and Business

By Marshall, Alfred

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Excerpt: The present volume is a study of industry and trade; with special reference to the technical evolution of industry, and its influences on the conditions of man?s life and work. It is designed to be followed by a companion volume, which is to be occupied with influences on those conditions exerted by the resources available for employment; by money and credit; by international trade; and by social endeavour. Its motto is:?The many in the one, the one in the many. Many tendencies have gone to the making of each industry and each economic institution: therefore a thorough realistic study of any part of the economic field, calls for some reference to the interaction of many diverse tendencies, and gives occasion for some care in analysis. And, conversely, almost every important tendency is so far modified by the conditions under which it operates, that an exhaustive study of it may need to range over many fields of work. This motto supplements the motto of my Principles which is:?Natura non facit sallum: i.e., economic evolution is gradual and continuous on each of its numberless routes.

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Contents Preface ...........................................................................................................................7 Book One: Some Origins of Present Problems of Industry and Trade ...................... 11 Chapter 1: Introductory Observations ......................................................................... 12 Chapter 2: Some General Relations Between Industry and Trade ............................... 20 Chapter 3: Foundations of England?s Industrial Leadership. Her Drift Towards Massive Production ........................................................................................................ 33 Chapter 4: Britain?s Industrial Leadership: Its Long Freedom from Challenge ............ 47 Chapter 5: Britain?s Industrial Leadership under Strong Challenge.............................. 64 Chapter 6: The Industrial Leadership of France. Individuality and Refinement in Production ..................................................................................................................... 77 Chapter 7: The Industrial Leadership of Germany: Science in the Service of Industry85 Chapter 8: The Industrial Leadership of the United States: Multiform Standardization97 Chapter 9: Transition to Present Problems of Industry and Trade ............................ 112 Book Two: Dominant Tendencies of Business Organization .................................... 122 Chapter 1: The Adjustment of Production to Demand in an Open Market ................ 123 Chapter 2: Debts of Industrial Technique to Systematic Record and to Standardization . 136 Chapter 3: Some Technical Influences on the Size of the Representative Business Unit .. 146 Chapter 4: Further Technical Influences on the Size of the Business Unit ................. 159 Chapter 5: Constructive Speculation. Organized Produce Markets ........................... 168 Chapter 6: Some Broad Problems of General Marketing .......................................... 179 Chapter 7: Problems of General Marketing Continued: Massive Retail Trade ........... 192 Chapter 8: Business Organization: The Growth and Influence of Joint Stock Companies ......................................................................................................................... 202 Chapter 9: Business Organization: Its Financial Basis ...............................................

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Industry and Trade a Study of Industrial Technique and Business

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