Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005)
By: Matthias Matthijs
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780415579445; 9780203842744
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Continuity and change in British economic policymaking; title: Crisis, ideas, and path dependence : theoretical framework and postware Britain's changing political economy; title: Clement Attlee's postwar "settlement" (1945-1970) : depression, war, Keynes, beveridge and a new consensus; title: Relative decline and the unravelling of consensus (1959-1979) : from "having it so good" to the "winter of discontent"; title: Margaret Thatcher's triumph (1975-1990) : inflation, Hayek, and the overhaul of the British state; title: Thatcherism's flaws and Tony Blair's consolidation (1987-2005) : from the Lawson boom to new labour's "new Britain"; title: Conclusion : made in Britain postscript bibliography.