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  • A neoliberal revolution?

    Thatcherism and the reform of British pensions

    by Hugh Pemberton, Dr James Freeman, Dr Aled Davies ...
    This book examines the Thatcher government’s attempt to revolutionise Britain’s pensions system in the 1980s and create a nation of risk-taking savers with an individual stake in capitalism. Drawing upon recently-released archival records, it shows how the ideas motivating these reforms journeyed from the writings of neoliberal intellectuals into government and became the centrepiece of a plan to ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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    Our Family: The Edginton’s Wars

    A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama Trilogy

    by Victor Pemberton ...
    Narrated by Nerys Hughes, Sheila Grant, Adam Godley, Derek Seaton, Nigel Anthony, Wendy Richard, Emily Richard, Michael Tudor Barnes, Eric Allan, Bill Monks, Julie Berry, Sean Barrett, Joan Matheson, Norman Bird, John Baddeley, Kim Wall, Full Cast ...

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    4 hours 21 min

    Three semi-autobiographical plays by Victor Pemberton telling the story of one family across the 20th centuryNovelist and playwright Victor Pemberton was best known for scripting Doctor Who and working on Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock. His many plays for BBC Radio included The Slide, Kill the Pharaoh. and this three-part family saga, a love story inspired by the lives of his own parents and starring ... Read more

    $18.79 USD

  • The Official History of the British Civil Service

    Reforming the Civil Service, Volume II: The Thatcher and Major Revolutions, 1982-97

    by Rodney Lowe, Hugh Pemberton ...
    Series series Government Official History Series
    This second volume of The Official History of the British Civil Service explores the radical restructuring of the Civil Service that took place during the Thatcher and Major premierships from 1982 until 1997, after a period of confusion and disagreement about its future direction.The book brings a much-needed historical perspective to the development of the ‘new public management’, in which the UK ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • An Affluent Society?

    Britain's Post-War 'Golden Age' Revisited

    by Lawrence Black, Hugh Pemberton ...
    Series series Modern Economic and Social History
    During an election speech in 1957 the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, famously remarked that 'most of our people have never had it so good'. Although taken out of context, this phrase soon came to epitomize the sense of increased affluence and social progress that was prevalent in Britain during the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, despite the recognition that Britain had moved away from an era of ... Read more

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    How Britain Enriched the Few and Failed the Poor. A 200-Year History

    by Stewart Lansley ...
    The Richer, The Poorer charts the rollercoaster history of both rich and poor and the mechanisms that link wealth and impoverishment. This landmark book shows how, for 200 years, Britain’s most powerful elites have enriched themselves at the expense of surging inequality, mass poverty and weakened social resilience.Stewart Lansley reveals how Britain’s model of ‘extractive capitalism’ – with a ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane ...
    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Greed Is Dead

    Politics After Individualism

    by Paul Collier, John Kay ...
    Two of the UK's leading economists call for an end to extreme individualism as the engine of prosperity'provocative but thought-provoking and nuanced' TelegraphThroughout history, successful societies have created institutions which channel both competition and co-operation to achieve complex goals of general benefit. These institutions make the difference between societies that thrive and those ... Read more

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  • Free Lunch Thinking

    8 Economic Myths and Why Politicians Fall for Them

    by Tom Bergin ...
    Countries with smaller governments grow faster.Tobacco taxes are the best way to cut smoking.Government regulation discourages entrepreneurshi****p.Award-winning investigative journalist Tom Bergin digs into eight mantras widely accepted by Western governments and, by talking to the people who promote those ideas and the workers, businesspeople and consumers who have felt their impacts, finds they ... Read more

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  • Understanding Ireland's Economic Crisis: Prospects For Recovery

    by Stephen Kinsella & Anthony Leddin ...
    This book looks at how Ireland as a small open economy can prosper in the medium term. It contains recommendations from Irelands top economic and policy commentators for boosting and sustaining the post-crisis economy. The book is policy relevant accessible and written to stimulate public debate. ... Read more

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  • Industrial Efficiency and State Intervention

    Labour 1939-1951

    by Dr Nick Tiratsoo, Nick Tiratsoo, Jim Tomlinson ...
    Nick Tiratsoo and Jim Tomlinson describe and assess the Labour Party's development of a policy of improving industrial efficiency. They concentrate on the debates and initiatives of the wartime period and subsequent implementation of policy under Attlee. The book modifies existing historiography in two ways - it shows that the Labour Party of 1945-51 was concerned mainly with industrial ... Read more

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  • Good Times, Bad Times

    The Welfare Myth of Them and Us

    by John Hills ...
    Two-thirds of UK government spending now goes on the welfare state and where the money is spent – healthcare, education, pensions, benefits – is the centre of political and public debate.Much of that debate is dominated by the myth that the population divides into those who benefit from the welfare state and those who pay into it – 'skivers' and 'strivers', 'them' and 'us'.This ground-breaking ... Read more

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  • Little Platoons

    How a revived One Nation can empower England's forgotten towns and redraw the political map

    by David Skelton ...
    Brexit – a revolutionary moment in British politics. Voters in long-forgotten English towns made their disenchantment clear, overwhelmingly voting to 'take back control' from a remote and defective economic system. Despite this decisive message in 2016, the concerns of these forgotten towns have continued to be all but ignored.David Skelton grew up in Consett, a north-eastern town where the steel ... Read more

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