Inside the Department of Economic Affairs : Samuel Brittan, the diary of an 'Irregular', 1964-6
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Inside the Department of Economic Affairs : Samuel Brittan, the diary of an 'Irregular', 1964-6
（Records of social and economic history, new ser. ; 48）
Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012
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Inside the Department of Economic Affairs : Samuel Brittan, the diary of an "Irregular", 1964-6
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Bibliography: p. [209]-220
Includes index
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内容説明
The rise and fall of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) parallels the promised but eventually unfulfilled modernization agenda of the 1964-6 Wilson government. The diary kept by Samuel Brittan (in contravention of civil service rules) for the fourteen months in which he served as an 'irregular' in the DEA provides a unique source for understanding the growth ambitions of the new government and why they quickly ran into the sands. Published here in full, with
extensive notes, the diary sheds light on the Wilson government more broadly, giving insights into the 'great reappraisal' of economic policy, the reform of government institutions and the personalities of those involved.
Samuel Brittan emerged as the most important economic journalist of his generation (at the Financial Times from 1955, with brief interruptions, to the present). His diary is would be of interest for that reason alone, but it has a double value because of the special place that his book, The Treasury under the Tories, 1951-64, has in diagnoses of successive failures in postwar British economic policy. The diary is central to understanding why Brittan turned against 1960s
dirigisme and thus constitutes an important contribution to the early intellectual history of the reaction against the postwar consensus.
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- THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS
- SAMUEL BRITTAN, THE DIARY OF AN IRREGULAR, 1964-6
- APPENDICES
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