Industrial Policy in Britain 1945-1951 - Economic Planning, Nationalisation and the Labour Governments

Klappentext An archive-based study of the economic planning of the Attlee governments in the period 1945 51. Zusammenfassung This study examines the economic planning of the Attlee governments and discusses the interaction between the workings of economic planning and its effects on business decision-making. The book spreads across a range of historical! economic and political boundaries enabling the author to build up a picture of the chief issues in the political economy of the period. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Economic planning; 2. New Jerusalem?; 3. Allocating resources; 4. Nationalisation; 5. Monopoly pricing; 6. Appraising investment; 7. Planning rationalisation; 8. Return to the market?

Product details

• Authors: Martin Chick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2002
• EAN: 9780521892537
• ISBN: 978-0-521-89253-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, 20th Century, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Political Economy, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Industry and industrial studies