Understanding Decline
Subtitle: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance
Contributors: Peter Clarke (Editor); Clive Trebilcock (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9780521563178
Subjects: British & Irish history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Economics; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Economic History; Contemporary Economic Situations And Conditions; Economic Policy; Business & Economics; History - General History; Business/Economics; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Development - Economic Development; General; Business & Economics / Economic History; Business & Economics : Development - Economic Development; Business & Economics : Economic History; Great Britain - Economic conditions; History / General; Economic Conditions
First sentence: As befits such an occasion, this lecture takes a speculative view of a very broad theme: Britain's putative economic decline, and more particularly the preoccupation with failure which has intermittently characterised political, journalistic, and academic discourse over the last hundred years.