British Rubber Manufacturing; An Economic Study of Innovations

Blue Cloth. Very Good/Good+. Stated First. Hardback. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 159 pages; 7 p. index; Introduction by G.C. Allen; from this Introduction: "Miss Donnithorne's book is one of a series of studies (by the Department of Political Economy of University College, London--since 1953). Their starting point was a proposition .that continued economic progress depends upon the capacity of industry to introduce a rapid succession of new products and new processes. If this proposition is correct, one is immediately led to ask what are the circumstances which predispose an industry towards accepting innovaations eagerly or with reserve. Miss Donnithorne's book attempts to throw light on this problem by studying what has actually happened in the rubber manufacturing industry in this courntry.".