Britain's Economic Miracle: Myth or Reality?

by Healey; Nigel

• ISBN13: 9780415081580
• ISBN10: 0415081580
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1992-12-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book offers a timely and comprehensive assessment of changes in British economic policy, casting doubts about the much heralded 'economic miracle' in the face of the continuing recession in the early 1990s.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiv
Abbreviations	p. xvi
From Keynesian Demand Management to Thatcherism	p. 1
Competing Perspectives on the Macroeconomy	p. 41
The Economy in the 1980s	p. 43
Britain's Economic Recovery	p. 57
Britain's Economic Renaissance	p. 72
The Economy after Ten Years	p. 91
An Assessment of Britain's Productivity Record in the 1980s	p. 109
The Conservative Government's 'Fight against Inflation'	p. 127
Contemporary Microeconomic Issues	p. 149
Government Policy, Taxation and Supply-Side Economics	p. 151
Privatisation Ten Years on	p. 174
The Economics of Trade Union Power	p. 195
New Firms	p. 211
Redistribution under Conservatism	p. 227
References	p. 256
Index	p. 264
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