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Government and the enterprise since 1900 : the changing problem of efficiency

Title: Government and the enterprise since 1900 : the changing problem of efficiency / Jim Tomlinson.
Author: Tomlinson, Jim.
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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xv, 455 pages; 23 cm

Summary

This book surveys the industrial policy of British governments from the beginning of the century to the early 1990s, exploring the perennial concern of administrations of all complexions with high growth, low unemployment, and competitiveness. The analysis proceeds chronologically and focuses on the formation and implementation of policy according to the prevailing ideology of the party in power.
Industrial policy is traced through times of war and recession, the building of the welfare state, growth and stagflation, economic liberalism and deindustrialization. Two case studies, of the cotton and car industries, are presented to illustrate the historical discussion.
. Dr Tomlinson, well established as an analyst of economic history and government policy, here contends that successive British governments have failed in their quest for an acceptable industrial policy that combines the central objectives shared by the major political parties. His trenchant exposition of both the macroeconomic context of industrial policy and its microeconomic effects illuminates the debate on a consistently controversial area of economic policy.

Subjects

Great Britain
Great Britain > Economic conditions > 20th century
Industrial policy > Great Britain > History > 20th century
Economic conditions > Policies > Of > Government

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-449) and index.

Contents

1. The Limits of Laissez-Faire -- 2. 1900-1914: National Efficiency and the Enterprise -- 3. 1914-1918: War and Wasted Opportunity -- 4. 1918-1929: Recession and Rationalization -- 5. 1929-1939: Protection and Profits -- 6. 1939-1945: Planning and Production -- 7. 1945-1951: Socialism and the Supply Side -- 8. Nationalization: Ownership and Organization -- 9. 1951-1961: Consumption and Competition -- 10. 1961-1970: New Frontiers and National Champions -- 11. 1970-1979: Stagflation and Surrender -- 12. 1979-1990: Enterprise and Economic Liberalism -- 13. A Case-Study: Cotton -- 14. A Case-Study: Cars.

ISBN

0198287496 (acid-free paper) :

LCCN

93032725

OCLC

ocm28797909

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Columbia University Libraries