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To what extent were entrepreneurs to blame for Britain's lack of industrial competitiveness between 1870 and 1914?  

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Word Count: 2235 To what extent were entrepreneurs to blame for Britain's lack of industrial competitiveness between 1870 and 1914? Abstract This essay will attempt to evaluate the claim by certain historians, that entrepreneurs were the main cause for Britain's lack of industrial competitiveness between 1870 and 1914. The essay will begin with a brief introduction, and then will outline in turn the main arguments that are damning of entrepreneurial actions. This will be followed with the counter arguments for this hypothesis, beginning with possible explanations as to why the entrepreneurs behaved in the way they did, and finishing on some points that in fact the world role of Britain was not so much in decline as originally believed. The essay will conclude by analytically weighing up the evidence to make some brief conclusions. To what extent were entrepreneurs to blame for Britain's lack of industrial competitiveness between 1870 and 1914? It has been popularly...

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