1st Edition

Britain's Economic Prospects Reconsidered

Edited By Alec Cairncross Copyright 2006
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction by Sir Alec Cairncross

1. The Role of Demand Management By Professor R.C.O. Matthews

2. Fiscal Policy and Stabilization in Britain By G.D.N. Worswick

3. Trade and Payments by G.D.N. Worswick

4. Labour Policies: Productivity, Industrial Relations, Cost Inflation By Professor E.H. Phelps Brown

5. Industrial Policies and Growth By M.V. Posner

6. Report of the Conference Sessions By C.A. Blyth

7. Second Thoughts on Britain's Economic Prospects By Professor R.E. Caves

8. Concluding Reflections by Sir Alec Cairncross

Biography

Alec Cairncross