Matthijs, Matthias,

Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005 / Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (nineteen forty five-two thousand and five Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (nineteen forty five-two thousand five Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945 to 2005 Matthias Matthijs. - xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Routledge explorations in economic history ; 49 . - Routledge explorations in economic history ; 49. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Continuity and change in British economic policymaking -- Crisis, ideas, and path dependence : theoretical framework and postwar Britain's changing political economy -- Clement Attlee's postwar "settlement" (1945-1970) : depression, war, Keynes, beveridge and a new consensus -- Relative decline and the unravelling of consensus (1959-1979) : from "having it so good" to the "winter of discontent" -- Margaret Thatcher's triumph (1975-1990) : inflation, Hayek, and the overhaul of the British state -- Thatcherism's flaws and Tony Blair's consolidation (1987-2005) : from the Lawson boom to new labour's "new Britain" -- Conclusion : made in Britain -- postscript : Gordon Brown, the "great recession," and the future of neoliberalism.

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Financial crises--History--Great Britain


Great Britain--Economic policy--1945-1964
Great Britain--Economic policy--1964-1979
Great Britain--Economic policy--1979-1997
Great Britain--Economic policy--1997-

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