Public policy and the economy since 1900

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Public policy and the economy since 1900

Jim Tomlinson

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1990

  • : pbk

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Bibliography: p. [348]-375

Includes index

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ISBN 9780198286585

Description

Covering both macro and micro issues, this account of British economic policy since 1900 draws on documents made available under the 30-year rule which reveal the formulation of policy through the 1950s. Chronological in its approach, it offers an analysis and description of policy making through the century. It is structured in such a way as to give due weight to the various influences on policy - institutional aspects (such as the changing role of policy-making ministries), political debate and economic theory.

Table of Contents

  • Public policy and the national economy
  • 1900-1914 - the world we have lost
  • 1914-1925 - a world shattered - and rebuilt?
  • 1925-1931 - the old world restored and found wanting
  • 1931-1939 - the rise of the managed economy?
  • 1939-1945 - planning the war and plans for peace
  • 1941-1958 - reconstructing the world economy
  • 1945-1951 - domestic reconstruction - building a new Jerusalem
  • 1951-1973 - the long boom
  • 1973-1979 - from crisis to crisis
  • 1979-1988 - renaissance or retrogression?
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780198287742

Description

This comprehensive new study gives a full account of the formulation of British economic policy in the twentieth century, drawing on the most recent research based on documents made available under the thirty-year rule to give detailed insight into policy-making in the 1950s and bringing the narrative right up to the end of the 1980s. The book offers both a lucid narrative description of the evolution of policy from the turn of the century through the First World War, recovery, the Depression, the Second War and its aftermath, the `Keynesian Revolution', and the shifts and about-turns of more recent decades, and a coherent analysis of these processes. Covering both macro and micro issues, the text is structured in such a way as to give due weight to all the various influences at work: institutional aspects, such as the changing role of policy-making ministries, as well as political debate and economic theory.

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