Whatever Happened to Monetarism?: Economic Policy Making and Social Learning in the United Kingdom Since 1979

ISBN-13: 9781138362666 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 187 str.

Michael J. Oliver

Opis

First published in 1997, this volume responds to the Conservative intention of conducting economic policy along monetarist lines after winning the General Election in May 1979.

Recenzje

’I am very glad that I have read this book... I recommend it to others’ Professor Gordon Pepper, City University Business School. ’An excellent, informed, and highly lucid summary of the macroeconomic developments since 1979’ Professor Kenneth Weiher, Prof of Economics, University of Texas, San Antonio ’Oliver’s study is greatly to be welcomed....’ Economic History Review

Spis treści

1. Social Learning and Policy Transfer. 2. A Failure of Keynesianism? 3. Towards a New Economic Policy: the 1970s. 4. False Start and Policy Confusion: 1979-83. 5. From Monetarism to Pragmatism: 1983-86. 6. The Return to Discretion: 1986-92. 7. Learning from the Past?