Changing Times - Economics, Policies, and Resource Allocation in Britain Since 1951

A study of the main changes in the British economy from 1951, focussing on nationalisation and privatisation; unemployment; funding of the NHS and education; deindustrialisation and Britain's changing industrial structure; taxation; inequality; environmental change and policy; and the UK's changing relationship with the EEC and the European Union.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Time, Capital Investment, and the State


• 3: Time, Labour Markets, and Industrial Policy


• 4: Poverty and Inequality


• 5: Health and Education


• 6: Transferring Assets: Public Housing and Nationalised Industries


• 7: Environment, Time, and Space


• 8: Trading Spaces


• 9: Banking, Crises, and Conclusions


• Statistical Appendix

About the author

Martin Chick is Professor of Economic History at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include a study of the economic planning of the Attlee governments, 1945-1951, and an analysis of the development of energy policies in the UK, France, and the United States since 1945. His latest project concerns the economic use of the sea and the sea bed, and examines such issues as whaling, fisheries, the law of the sea, and the dumping of hazardous waste at sea.

Summary

A study of the main changes in the British economy from 1951, focussing on nationalisation and privatisation; unemployment; funding of the NHS and education; deindustrialisation and Britain's changing industrial structure; taxation; inequality; environmental change and policy; and the UK's changing relationship with the EEC and the European Union.

Additional text

... this book has many strengths. It provides a non-technical presentation of important ideas in economics and is accessible to readers with a limited knowledge of the subject. It is written in the style of a historian who presents lots of factual details based on meticulous research. It benefits from and excellent command of secondary sources including very recent publications. It covers a lot of ground very well.

Product details

• Authors: Chick , Martin Chick, Martin (Professor of Economic History Chick
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780199552788
• ISBN: 978-0-19-955278-8
• No. of pages: 456
• Series: An Economic and Social History of Britain; Economic and Social History of
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 21st Century, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, Economic history, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)