In the 19th century, the Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association (CBA) coordinated the dramatic growth of Liverpool's raw cotton market. This article shows how the CBA achieved this through the development of a private order institutional framework that improved information flows, introduced...

Capital ownership, capital structure and capital markets: financial constraints and decline in the Lancashire cotton textile industry, 1880-1965 -- Quiet successes and loud failures: the UK textile industries in the interwar years -- The decline of the UK textile industry: the terminal years...