Politics and economic policy in the UK since 1964 the Jekyll and Hyde years /
Politics and Economic Policy in the UK since 1964: The Jekyll and Hyde Years examines the economic policies that have been pursued by successive governments in Britain since 1964 and how such policies have been influenced by two sets of factors: politics and Keynesian demand management. The two basi...
| Uniform Title: | Jekyll & Hyde years |
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| Main Author: | Stewart, Michael, 1933- |
| Other Authors: | ScienceDirect (Online service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [Oxfordshire] :
Pergamon Press,
[1983, 1978]
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (272 pages). |
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Open University set book.
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Politics and Economic Policy in the UK since 1964: The Jekyll and Hyde Years examines the economic policies that have been pursued by successive governments in Britain since 1964 and how such policies have been influenced by two sets of factors: politics and Keynesian demand management. The two basic failures of British economic policy since 1964 are highlighted, namely, the failure to establish a workable long-term incomes policy and the failure to achieve a high and stable rate of industrial investment. This book is comprised of seven chapters and begins with a background on the British eco. |
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Reprint. Originally published: The Jekyll & Hyde years. London : J.M. Dent, 1977. Front Cover; Politics and Economic Policy in the UK since 1964 The Jekyll and Hyde Years; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION; Chapter 2. THE EBB TIDE: Background to 1964; Economic problems; Party objectives; Manipulating demand; Labour after 1959; Election year; Chapter 3. GREAT EXPECTATIONS: October 1964-March 1966; Labour's hangups; The balance of payments; No devaluation; Alternative courses of action; Labour and the City's hangups; The Department of Economic Affairs; Incomes policy; The growth problem; Neddy and the National Plan; On the tightrope. Unhappiness in the unions and on the LeftHeath replaces Home; Manoeuvring towards the next election; 'You know Labour government works'; Chapter 4. THE LIGHT THAT FAILED: April 1966-June 1970; Selective Employment Tax; The Seamen's Strike; The July measures; Reactions to the July measures; EEC: Second shot; The bumpy road to devaluation; Reactions to devaluation; Two years' hard slog; In place of In Place of Strife; Industrial policy; Regional policy; The distribution of income and wealth; The incomes policy and the wage explosion; The emergence of Selsdon Man; The 1970 general election. Chapter 5. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE: June 1970-February 1974A new style of government; Museum charges; The Industrial Relations Act; The demon Barber; Some reflation; Lame ducks and roosting chickens; A lot more reflation; Doubts about fine tuning; Floating; EEC: third time lucky?; Inflation and the evanescent Phillips curve; The monetarist solution; Back to a statutory incomes policy; 1973 -- annus horribilis; The oil crisis; The second miners'strike; The inconclusive election; Chapter 6. DESPERATE REMEDIES: Since February 1974; The economic problem; New Cambridge; Another budget, another election. The disintegrating social contractThatcher replaces Heath; Getting through the referendum; Back to incomes policy; The new industrial strategy; Public affluence and private squalor?; Future uncertain; Chapter 7. SOME CONCLUDING REMARKS; Structural factors; Technical factors; Managemental factors; Political factors; Sources and references; Abbreviations; Statistical appendix; Index. Politics and Economic Policy in the UK since 1964: The Jekyll and Hyde Years examines the economic policies that have been pursued by successive governments in Britain since 1964 and how such policies have been influenced by two sets of factors: politics and Keynesian demand management. The two basic failures of British economic policy since 1964 are highlighted, namely, the failure to establish a workable long-term incomes policy and the failure to achieve a high and stable rate of industrial investment. This book is comprised of seven chapters and begins with a background on the British eco. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (272 pages). |
| ISBN: |
9781483136561 1483136566 |