The reason is simply that during the war it was deliberate government policy to shift resources out of the staples into the essential wartime industries . As the latter - for instance , electronics and aerospace - had good growth prospects , Britain emerged from the war with a fairly favourable industrial mix . A second possibility is that an early start left Britain with a small agricultural sector . This , it is claimed , reduced her capacity to shift resources into the manufacturing and service sectors , in...











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