176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Most historical accounts of economic policy set out to describe the way in which governments have attempted to solve their economic problems and to achieve their economic objectives. Jim Tomlinson, however, focuses on the problems themselves, arguing that the way in which areas of economic policy become ‘problems’ for policy makers is always problematic itself, that it is never obvious and never... Read more
Acknowledgements v
Introduction: Approaches to economic policy 1
1 Unemployment as an object of policy before 1914 13
2 Britain and the gold standard 1880–1914 26
3 Trade and Empire before 1914 44
4 Unemployment as an object of policy in the 1920s 62
5 Public Works, We Can Conquer Unemployment, and the Treasury View 76
6 The problem. of $4.86 92
7 The Empire and British economic policy after 1914 106
8 British economic policy 1931–45: a Keynesian revolution? 120
Notes 135
Name index 157
Subject index 159
Biography
Tomlinson, Jim
