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Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction and overview; Part I.Measuring Comparative Productivity Performance: 2. The contribution ofservices to the productivity performance of the whole economy; 3. Comparativeproductivity performance in market services; 4. A sectoral data base:Britain, the United States and Germany, 1870-1990; Part II. ExplainingComparative Productivity Performance: 5. Technology, organisational changeand the industrialisation of services; 6. Investment in physical and humancapital; 7. Competition and the institutional framework; Part III.Reassessing the Performance of British Market Services: 8. The 'golden age'of British commerce, 1850-1914; 9. The collapse of the liberal world economicorder, 1914-1950; 10. Completing the industrialisation of services,1950-1990; 11. British services in the 1990s: a preliminary assessment; 12.Summary and conclusions; Bibliography.