Government versus the market : the growth of the public sector, economic management and british economic performance, c.1890-1979 /
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| Language: | English |
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Cheltenham, UK Brookfield, VT:
Edward Elgar,
c1996
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of conventions and symbols
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Government and market: a historical and theoretical survey
- 3. The growth of the public sector: an overview
- Part II. The disintegration of the old synthesis, 1890-1914
- 4. The performance of the late-Victorian and Edwardian economy
- 5. The growth of government: the challenge to laissez-faire
- 6. Government, ʹnational efficiencyʹ and the economy, 1890-1914
- Part III. Creeping collectivism, 1914-39
- 7. The performance of the interwar economy
- 8. War, mass unemployment and the growth of government between the wars
- 9. The origins of modern economic management: macroeconomic potential and microeconomic failure
- Part IV. The rise and fall of Keynesian social democracy, 1939-79
- 10. The performance of the postwar economy to 1979
- 11. The consolidation of big government: the market eclipsed and the growth of the public sector, 1939-79
- 12. Postwar economic management and policy impact to 1979
- Part V. Conclusions
- 13. Conclusions
- Appendices
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Subject index