British Economic Performance and Total Factor Productivity Growth, 1870-1940 .

Presents the author's reply to the comments on his paper "Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Revision of Post-1870 British Economic History," published in the 1982 issue of the journal "Economic History Review." Criticism of the use of total factor productivity (TFP) indexes in measuring productivity growth in Great Britain in 1870; Assumptions used in constructing the TFP index; Analysis of the incorporation of non-constant returns and market imperfections in the productivity index.