1. Did Victorian Britain Fail?
Pollard, stating that exports were the only reliable figure for international comparison at the time, also notes a "clear dip" during the 1880s and 1890s but says that there was an "equally clear recovery" thereafter. ... He speculates that if the investment rate had been similar to that of Germany, then a 25% increase in consumption per head would have been possible by 1911. ... He claims that there was no reason why British technical and scientific education should have remained negligible, in a period when a wealth of rich amateur scientists and privately endowed research laboratories o...
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