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  • The Economic Section 1939-1961

    A Study In Economic Advising

    by Alec Cairncross, Nita Watts ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1989, The Economic Section 1939-1961 is a rare study of economic policymaking as seen from the inside. The Economic Section, formed in 1939-1940, was the first group of professional economists to operate full-time at the centre of government in the United Kingdom and its views on many issues of economic policy were frequently decisive.In this volume, two former members of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Years of Recovery

    British Economic Policy 1945-51

    by Alec Cairncross ...
    Series series Economic History
    Years of Recovery was the first comprehensive study of the transition from war to peace in the British economy under the Labour government of 1945–51. It includes a full account of the successive crises and turning-points in those hectic years – the coal and convertibility crises of 1947, devaluation in 1949 and rearmament in 1951. These episodes, apart from their dramatic interest, light up the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Essays in Economic Management

    by Alec Cairncross ...
    The papers in this volume cover the following areas: * Government and Industry * The Managed Economy * Monetary Policy * Fiscal Policy * Economic Forecasting and Economic Planning * Economists in Government ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Inflation, Growth and International Finance

    by Alec Cairncross ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Inflation
    This book, originally published in 1975, deals with the sources of economic growth, inflation and the prospects of bringing it under control, floating exchange rates and restrictions on international capital movements. Although aimed at the non-specialist, professional economists willa slo find the book stimulating. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Robert Hall Diaries 1954-1961 (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Alec Cairncross ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service rules – he kept a diary in which he documented and reflected on day-to-day events. This second volume, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Britain's Economic Prospects Reconsidered

    Edited by Alec Cairncross ...
    Series series Economic History
    This book is a sequal to Britain's Economic Prospects, the report issued in 1968 by the Brookings Institution and universally accepted as the most thorough and comprehensive study of the British Economy to have ever appeared.Two years later, just after the British General election, six fo the American economists who prepared the Brookings Report met with a number of other leading economists from ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Robert Hall Diaries 1947-1953 (Routledge Revivals)

    Edited by Alec Cairncross ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service rules – he kept a diary in which he documented and reflected on day-to-day events. This first volume, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Economic Ideas and Government Policy

    Contributions to Contemporary Economic History

    by Sir Alec Cairncross ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Economic History
    This volume collects together Sir Alec Cairncross' most important contributions to the economic history of the post-1939 period. They address such major issues as the role of economists in the 2nd World War, the significance of the Marshall plan and Britain's relative economic decline. Together they demonstrate a keen insight into the changing role of the economist in government and the gradual ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Beyond the Boom: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

    A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special

    by John Edwards ...
    After decades of prosperity Australians are now worried about their jobs, their incomes and their future. The mining boom, said to explain Australia's past success, is declared to be over. Unemployment has increased, carmakers have folded, the government is running a huge deficit.In a striking analysis, economist John Edwards challenges the prevailing pessimism. Cutting through the confusion, ... Read more

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  • Memoirs of a Tory Radical

    by Nigel Lawson ...
    A fully revised and updated edition of Nigel Lawson's extraordinary autobiography. A key minister for a full decade and Chancellor of the Exchequer, from 1983 to 1989, Nigel Lawson was one of the most powerful and effective of Margaret Thatcher's colleagues, and among the chief architects of Thatcherism. This abridged edition of Lord Lawson's memoirs - first published as The View from No.11 in ... Read more

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  • Sins of the Father

    Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy

    by Conor McCabe ...
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