TY - BOOK AU - Matthijs,Matthias TI - Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005 T2 - Routledge explorations in economic history SN - 0415579449 U1 - 330.941085 22 PY - 2011/// CY - London PB - Routledge KW - Financial crises KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - Economic policy KW - 1945-1964 KW - 1964-1979 KW - 1979-1997 KW - 1997- N1 - 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 ER -