'Goodbye, Great Britain' : the 1976 IMF crisis

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'Goodbye, Great Britain' : the 1976 IMF crisis

Kathleen Burk & Alec Cairncross

Yale University Press, 1992

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Goodbye, Great Britain : the 1976 IMF crisis

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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In this authoritative and gripping book-the first full account of the 1976 International Monetary Fund crisis-Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross peel back the surface of the most searing economic crisis of postwar Britain to reveal its historical roots and contemporary context. During the spring of 1976, the plummeting value of the British pound against the U.S. dollar triggered a traumatic economic and political crisis. International confidence in the pound collapsed; an article in the Wall Street Journal, headlined "Good-bye, Great Britain," urged investors to get out of sterling. Refused aid by the London and New York markets, the Labour Government under Prime Minister James Callaghan was forced to turn for help to the IMF-a highly unusual move for a developed Western economy. Fearing that the economic crisis would drive Britain into a left-wing siege economy which would endanger NATO and the EEC, the United States and Germany used the IMF loan as a means to force Britain to make major domestic policy changes; when the IMF mission arrived in London in November 1976, it was announced that the price for the loan included deep cuts in domestic spending. Burk and Cairncross uncover the maneuvers of the Labour Government to evade IMF conditions. They also examine underlying economic factors, the political agenda, the rise of monetarist ideas, and the Keynesian response. Juxtaposing narrative with analysis, they provide surprising answers to critical questions and reveal how the breakdown of the post-war consensus on the macroeconomic management paved the way for the triumph of Thatcherism.

目次

  • Part 1 The politcs: what's past is prologue
  • the gathering storm - March-September 1976
  • October-December 1976
  • getting rid of the sterling balances. Part 2 The economics: the movement of opinion
  • the loss of control - the balance of payments
  • the loss of control - the balance of payments - a. fiscal policy, b. monetary policy, c. incomes policy
  • comparisons and conclusions. Appendix: the letter of intent.

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