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The Economic Section 1939-1961

Author : Alec Cairncross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100051224X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Section 1939-1961 written by Alec Cairncross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, The Economic Section 1939-1961 is a rare study of economic policymaking as seen from the inside. The Economic Section, formed in 1939-1940, was the first group of professional economists to operate full-time at the centre of government in the United Kingdom and its views on many issues of economic policy were frequently decisive. In this volume, two former members of the Section draw on their memories and on the public records to trace the history of the Section from the early days of the war to the end of the 1950s. Alec Cairncross and Nita Watts discuss the advice offered by the Section, the controversies that followed advisers, and how Ministers responded. They present a picture of the day-to-day working of the Section, but inevitably focus on the more dramatic episodes, when major issues of policy were in dispute or important new issues were posed. Separate chapters are devoted to the Section’s role in four main areas: fiscal, monetary, incomes and external economic policy. In illuminating influence on policy exercised by officials and the place of expert advice in economic management, this work will appeal to a wide range of readers. It offers the student of economics or politics a picture of what, in practice, goes to the making of economic policy.

The Economic Section 1939-1961

Author : Alec Cairncross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032140100
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Economic Section 1939-1961 written by Alec Cairncross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1989, The Economic Section 1939-1961 is a rare study of economic policymaking as seen from the inside. It presents a picture of the day-to-day working of the Section, focussing on the more dramatic episodes, when major issues of policy were in dispute or important new issues were posed.

The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940-1945

Author : Kevin Jefferys
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025600
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (256 download)

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Book Synopsis The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940-1945 by : Kevin Jefferys

Download or read book The Churchill Coalition and Wartime Politics, 1940-1945 written by Kevin Jefferys and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revisionist study, Jefferys challenges many long-held assumptions about British politics in the period between 1939 and 1945. Drawing on a range of unpublished sources, he challenges the notion of consensus as a guiding principle of politics in the 1940s and argues that wartime coalition masked the continuance of profound disagreements about the future direction of economic and social policy. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Economic Careers

Author : Keith Tribe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134755899
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Economic Careers written by Keith Tribe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume fourteen senior economists describe their early introduction to the study of economics and their contribution to the development of academic economics in Britain. With experience covering a period stretching from the mid 1920s to the late 1960s, many of the contributors not only provide an insight into the role of university disciplines in the education system but describe their experience in wartime administration, or as government advisors. The interview format of the work makes for accessibility and readability in a sometimes arcane area of work.

Threatening Europe

Author : James Ellison
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230509800
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Threatening Europe written by James Ellison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to concentrate on the British attempt to place the EEC within a larger Free Trade Area. It is also the first to use recently released records to examine the Foreign Office's Grand Design for political co-operation in Europe. Its main focus is Anglo-European diplomacy, yet it deals with wider international relations and the Cold War. The book therefore extends the debate by presenting a full historical analysis of Britain's response to the creation of the European Community.

Industrialisation and the British Colonial State

Author : Lawrence Butler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136307850
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Industrialisation and the British Colonial State written by Lawrence Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking colonial policy towards West Africa as a case study, Butler shows that, during the 1940s, the Colonial Office evolved a policy of encouraging colonial industry as part of a broad programme of development intended to prepare colonies for independence.

Design and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain

Author : Patrick Maguire
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780718501419
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Design and Cultural Politics in Postwar Britain written by Patrick Maguire and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine essays and a collection of documents intended as a working tool for students of the post-war period and in particular of design within the period. They discuss the textiles, pottery, and furniture industries in terms of the shifts in meaning and location during the transition from highly controlled wartime production to the more market-based structure that would become characteristic after the immediate reconstruction. Among the specific topics are the place of the exhibition in the history of design; patriotism, politics, and production; adapting utility furniture to peace-time production; and aesthetic idealism and economic reality. Distributed in the US by Books International. The CiP data shows the main title as Popular Politics and Design in Post-War Britain. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

1999 Lectures and Memoirs

Author : British Academy
Publisher : British Academy
ISBN 13 : 9780197262306
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book 1999 Lectures and Memoirs written by British Academy and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2000 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 105 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 11 British Academy lectures and 15 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.

Unemployment: A Problem of Policy

Author : G. D. N. Worswick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521400341
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis Unemployment: A Problem of Policy by : G. D. N. Worswick

Download or read book Unemployment: A Problem of Policy written by G. D. N. Worswick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-02-14 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high level of unemployment in Britain in the 1980s led many people to believe that it would continue indefinitely, and many arguments were advanced to explain it. After a preliminary examination of the statistics of employment and unemployment in Britain, this 1991 book exposes the major factors determining their trends as a basis for considering the likely developments and policy options. The study covers most of the explanations found in academic debate as well as in popular belief, drawing on a wide range of empirical research, including systematic international comparisons as well as case studies of particular interest. The analysis is carried out under four main headings: structural change; the wage question; macroeconomic policy; and the international dimension. The book concludes with a consideration of the practicability of the different policies which emerge.

The Road from Mont Pèlerin

Author : Philip Mirowski
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674495136
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The Road from Mont Pèlerin written by Philip Mirowski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-16 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although modern neoliberalism was born at the “Colloque Walter Lippmann” in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society, a partisan “thought collective,” in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1947. Its original membership was made up of transnational economists and intellectuals, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Luigi Einaudi. From this small beginning, their ideas spread throughout the world, fostering, among other things, the political platforms of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the Washington Consensus. The Road from Mont Pèlerin presents the key debates and conflicts that occurred among neoliberal scholars and their political and corporate allies regarding trade unions, development economics, antitrust policies, and the influence of philanthropy. The book captures the depth and complexity of the neoliberal “thought collective” while examining the numerous ways that neoliberal discourse has come to shape the global economy. “The Road from Mont Pèlerin is indispensable for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of neoliberalism, whether as an end in itself or as a means for constructing alternative, non-neoliberal futures.” —Daniel Kinderman, Critical Policy Studies “If you work on post-war history of economics, there is almost no reason not to read this book.” —Ross B. Emmett, Journal of the History of Economic Thought

The European Rescue of the Nation-state

Author : Alan S. Milward
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415216296
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book The European Rescue of the Nation-state written by Alan S. Milward and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly revised and updated, this second edition is the classic economic and political account of the origins of the European Community book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state and European integration.

Transforming British Government

Author : R. Rhodes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230512933
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Transforming British Government written by R. Rhodes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the changing roles and relationships of the Prime Minister, ministers and civil servants. Edited by Rod Rhodes and written by a team of distinguished political scientists and historians these volumes provide an authoritative account of how British government has changed over the past fifty years.

Britain's Place in the World

Author : George Brennan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134771150
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Place in the World written by George Brennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-07-09 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's Place in the World examines the establishment and effectiveness of import controls, particularly quotas. Placing quotas back in the centre of British history, Milward and Brennan make some radical claims for Britain's economic performance in a global context. Looking into a wide variety of industries from motorcars to typewriters, raw chemicals to food produce, they examine the intended and actual obstruction to imported goods represented by quotas, and the political and financial ramifications beyond the statistics. This is the fourth book to be published in the Routledge Explorations in Economic History series.

Keynes and His Critics

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263228
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Keynes and His Critics written by G. C. Peden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These documents, published here for the first time, present the Treasury's counter-arguments during the period when Keynes was developing the ideas that led to the Keynesian revolution in economic policy. Keynes spent much effort trying to persuade the Treasury to adopt policies designed to raise employment and stabilise prices, and to create an international monetary system that would favour these objectives. His arguments are set out fully in the Royal Economic Society's 30-volume set of The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. In contrast, the views of his Treasury critics have hitherto been much less accessible. Economists and historians have tended to assume that Keynes was right and the Treasury was wrong; this volume shows that the Treasury anticipated the political problems that would be encountered in putting Keynes's ideas into practice. Much of what Keynes published was deliberately polemical: he believed that words should be 'a little wild', for they were 'the assault of thought on the unthinking'. Treasury officials were by no means as unthinking as Keynes tended to portray them, and they had a coherent and intellectually respectable understanding of public finance. Ministers in the inter-war period and early in the Second World War were sensitive to the use that political opponents might make of Keynes's arguments; officials had to provide counter-arguments, and in doing so they revealed much about their views on economics and public finance. Once Keynes became an adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1940, the debate became internal to the Treasury, but officials continued to subject Keynes's ideas to critical analysis. The documents in this volume show Treasury responses to Keynes on a range of issues crucial to understanding the period and the context of the Keynesian revolution in public policy. The topics covered include: the return to the gold standard; the use of public expenditure to cure unemployment in the inter-war period; how to avoid inflation in the war; planning for the post-war international economy; and the 1944 white paper on employment policy. This edition is an essential tool for the study of a formative period of British history and a great intellectual debate.

Keynes's Theoretical Development

Author : Toshiaki Hirai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134230419
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Keynes's Theoretical Development written by Toshiaki Hirai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and authoritative, this book, written by a recognized authority on the subject explores the contributions to modern economics by John Maynard Keynes and addresses neglected, yet crucial aspects of the genesis of Keynesian economics. In this book, the author elucidates Keynes’ development as an economic theoretician through an examination of his books, articles, various manuscripts, lecture notes and controversial correspondence. Departing from a narrative account and analyzing processes of theory-building and re-building which constitute Keynes’s intellectual journey from the Tract to the General Theory, this volume shows Keynes’ theoretical development as a theoretical hypothesis. An excellent exposition of Keynes’ contribution, this is a valuable addition to the bookshelves of all to students and researchers interested in Keynes and more widely the history of economic thought and macroeconomics.

Major Recessions

Author : J. Christopher R. Dow
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199241231
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Major Recessions written by J. Christopher R. Dow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century there have been five major recessions: two in the interwar period, and three more starting 1973, 1979, and 1989. This book focuses on events in the UK, but sets them in their international context, and makes frequent comparisons with other countries.

The Genesis of the GATT

Author : Douglas A. Irwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139471341
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Genesis of the GATT written by Douglas A. Irwin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of a wider project on the economic logic behind the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). This volume asks: What does the historical record indicate about the aims and objectives of the framers of the GATT? Where did the provisions of the GATT come from and how did they evolve through various international meetings and drafts? To what extent does the historical record provide support for one or more of the economic rationales for the GATT? This book examines the motivations and contributions of the two main framers of the GATT, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the smaller role of other countries. The framers desired a commercial agreement on trade practices as well as negotiated reductions in trade barriers. Both were sought as a way to expand international trade to promote world prosperity, restrict the use of discriminatory policies to reduce conflict over trade, and thereby establish economic foundations for maintaining world peace.