Julian Greaves
Biographic Data
| ID | 5879158 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julian Greaves |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julian |
| FAMILY NAME | Greaves |
| SIGNATURE | GREAVES J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Industrial Reorganization and Government Policy in Interwar Britain
Offering a detailed overview of state involvement in the rationalisation and reorganisation of British industry between the wars, this is the first work to address the issues in a comprehensive manner for over 50 years. Utilising a range of primary source material (including papers from the PRO, the Bank of England, the Federation of British Industry and various private archives), Julian Greaves has combined a selection of detailed case studies o…
Managing Decline
This paper looks at the decline of the formerly omnipotent British mercantile marine between the 2 world wars and the challenges this decline presented to successive British governments. Several packages of financial aid were made available to ship owners but they were limited in scope and did little to improve the trade's underlying competitive position. In turn, this reflected the complex nature of the trade's problems; the unwillingness of the…
Competition, Collusion, and Confusion
British industrial policy in the 1930s has generated considerable historical controversy. This article furthers the debate by using the cotton industry as a case study. The biggest constraint on active government policies toward cotton was not institutional inertia or “industrial diplomacy,” as some historians claim, but the sheer practical difficulty of intervening in such a complex industry. Cotton also poses problems for historians who see Bri…
Managing Decline
This paper looks at the decline of the formerly omnipotent British mercantile marine between the 2 world wars and the challenges this decline presented to successive British governments. Several packages of financial aid were made available to ship owners but they were limited in scope and did little to improve the trade's underlying competitive position. In turn, this reflected the complex nature of the trade's problems; the unwillingness of the…
Competition, Collusion, and Confusion
British industrial policy in the 1930s has generated considerable historical controversy. This article furthers the debate by using the cotton industry as a case study. The biggest constraint on active government policies toward cotton was not institutional inertia or “industrial diplomacy,” as some historians claim, but the sheer practical difficulty of intervening in such a complex industry. Cotton also poses problems for historians who see Bri…
Competition, Collusion, and Confusion
British industrial policy in the 1930s has generated considerable historical controversy. This article furthers the debate by using the cotton industry as a case study. The biggest constraint on active government policies toward cotton was not institutional inertia or “industrial diplomacy,” as some historians claim, but the sheer practical difficulty of intervening in such a complex industry. Cotton also poses problems for historians who see Bri…
Managing Decline
This paper looks at the decline of the formerly omnipotent British mercantile marine between the 2 world wars and the challenges this decline presented to successive British governments. Several packages of financial aid were made available to ship owners but they were limited in scope and did little to improve the trade's underlying competitive position. In turn, this reflected the complex nature of the trade's problems; the unwillingness of the…
Industrial Reorganization and Government Policy in Interwar Britain
Offering a detailed overview of state involvement in the rationalisation and reorganisation of British industry between the wars, this is the first work to address the issues in a comprehensive manner for over 50 years. Utilising a range of primary source material (including papers from the PRO, the Bank of England, the Federation of British Industry and various private archives), Julian Greaves has combined a selection of detailed case studies o…
Australian History and Society (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Collusion (1 works) · Commercial policy (1 works) · Competition (biology (1 works) · Confusion (1 works) · Constraint (computer-aided design (1 works)