A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals)

Henry Phelps Brown, Sheila V. Hopkins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415525411
• eBook ISBN: 9781136310195
• Topic: Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Subtopic: Business allgemein

First published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder's wage rates and the price of a bundle of the commodities on which these wages might be spent.

These seminal contributions to the economics of labour and economic growth did much to fuel the debate surrounding the problems of inflation, stability and changes in the purchasing power of money upon the book's initial publication. These concerns are every bit as relevant in today's post credit-crunch society and this reissue will be welcomed by all students of economic history and labour economics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Introduction
• 1 Seven Centuries of Building Wages
• 2 Seven Centuries of the Prices of Consumables, compared with Builders' Wage-rates
• 3 Wage-rates and Prices: Evidence for Population Pressure in the Sixteenth Century
• 4 Builders' Wage-rates, Prices and Population: Some Further Evidence
• 5 Seven Centuries of Wages and Prices: Some Earlier Estimates
• 6 The Share of Wages in National Income
• 7 The Climacteric of the 1890's: A Study in the Expanding Economy
• 8 Economic Growth and the Price Level
• 9 The Economic Consequences of Collective Bargaining