Economics And Economic Policy In Britain

Author : T.W. Hutchison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134562829
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics and Economic Policy in Britain written by T.W. Hutchison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first part of the book is devoted to an historical survey of what has been written regarding Britain's policy problems since 1946: problems such as full employment, the sources and methods of controlling inflation and the measures to promote economic growth. At an international level, issues such as economic relations with Europe and the question of devaluation are considered. The subsequent part of the book considers how far economists' recommendations regarding policies have been derived from well-tested theories, or how far they have been based on speculation, guesswork or judgement.

Author : Paul Mosley
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312506889
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Economic Policy written by Paul Mosley and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1984-06-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a thorough and persuasive study, which summarizes existing literature and draws on hitherto unpublished material. It will be invaluable for anyone interested in economics and politics. Paul Mosley shows how the job has been tackled by the governments of Britain and the United States.

Author : John V. C. Nye
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691190496
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War, Wine, and Taxes written by John V. C. Nye and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In War, Wine, and Taxes, John Nye debunks the myth that Britain was a free-trade nation during and after the industrial revolution, by revealing how the British used tariffs—notably on French wine—as a mercantilist tool to politically weaken France and to respond to pressure from local brewers and others. The book reveals that Britain did not transform smoothly from a mercantilist state in the eighteenth century to a bastion of free trade in the late nineteenth. This boldly revisionist account gives the first satisfactory explanation of Britain's transformation from a minor power to the dominant nation in Europe. It also shows how Britain and France negotiated the critical trade treaty of 1860 that opened wide the European markets in the decades before World War I. Going back to the seventeenth century and examining the peculiar history of Anglo-French military and commercial rivalry, Nye helps us understand why the British drink beer not wine, why the Portuguese sold liquor almost exclusively to Britain, and how liberal, eighteenth-century Britain managed to raise taxes at an unprecedented rate—with government revenues growing five times faster than the gross national product. War, Wine, and Taxes stands in stark contrast to standard interpretations of the role tariffs played in the economic development of Britain and France, and sheds valuable new light on the joint role of commercial and fiscal policy in the rise of the modern state.

Author : Terence Wilmot Hutchison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics and Economic Policy in Britain, 1946-1966 written by Terence Wilmot Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terence Wilmot Hutchison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economics and Economic Policy in Britain, 1946-1966 written by Terence Wilmot Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alec Cairncross
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136597700
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Years of Recovery written by Alec Cairncross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years of Recovery was the first comprehensive study of the transition from war to peace in the British economy under the Labour government of 1945–51. It includes a full account of the successive crises and turning-points in those hectic years – the coal and convertibility crises of 1947, devaluation in 1949 and rearmament in 1951. These episodes, apart from their dramatic interest, light up the dilemmas of policy and the underlying economic trends and pressures in a country delicately poised between economic disaster and full recovery. Many of the debates on economic policy that are still in progress – on incomes policy, demand management, the welfare state and relations with Europe, for example – have their roots in those years. Many of the trends originating then persisted long afterwards. The book also examines the interaction between events and policy and the role in a managed economy of the policy-making machine. Now that the public records are open to 1954, it has been possible to make use of official documents to review the possibilities of action that were canvassed and the thinking and differences of opinion that underlay ministerial decisions. Combining personal involvement with thorough research, this fascinating study will be a major contribution to our understanding of post-war economic policy. Alec Cairncross was Chancellor of the University of Glasgow and a former Master of St Peter’s College, Oxford. He spent the years covered by this volume as a civil servant in London, Berlin and Paris before moving to Glasgow as Professor of Applied Economics. This classic book of some of his most brilliant research was first published in 1985.

Author : Peter A. Hall
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195205237
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing the Economy written by Peter A. Hall and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain, this book develops a striking new argument about the sources of Britain's economic problems. Through an insightful, comparative examination of policy-making in Britain and France, Hall presents a new approach to state-society relations that emphasizes the crucial role of institutional structures.

Author : G. C. Peden
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191542660
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treasury and British Public Policy 1906-1959 written by G. C. Peden and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative history of the Treasury provides a new perspective on public policy-making in the twentieth century as it explores the role and functions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the consequent implications for the changing role of the Treasury. As the central department in British government, the Treasury plays a key role in decisions on public expenditure, and on raising taxes and loans. Professor Peden traces the development of the Treasury's responsibility for managing the national economy and looks at how it became increasingly involved in international relations from the time of the First World War. In further examining the relations between ministers and their official advisers, this history explores the growing influence of economists in Whitehall.

Author : Ian M. Drummond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136607153
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book British Economic Policy and Empire, 1919-1939 written by Ian M. Drummond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. This volume looks at the period of 1919 to 1939 in British economic policy and the Empire, including documents on imperial policy.

Author : Geoffrey Denton
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351854984
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Planning and Policies in Britain, France and Germany written by Geoffrey Denton and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examining the innovations of economic policy in the UK, France and Germany in the 1960s, this book originally published in 1968, assesses the degree of success of these policies and draws conclusion for the oreintation of future policy. The book contrasts the long history of national planning in France with the equally long history of anti-planning ideology in Germany and by close examination of the actual policies, brings out the relaities that lie behind the public attitudes. It discusses the problems which lead to planning interventions, followed by a chapter on the UK, France and Germany. It examines in details particular adaptations of policy: namely Quantitative programming, monetary policy, fiscal policy, public expenditures, regional policy, prices and incomes policy and the balance of payments, comparing developments in all 3 countries. It also looks at the beginning of economic planning at the level of the EEC, with particular implications for British entry."--Provided by publisher.