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Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964–1979

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137460264

ISBN: 978-1-349-68974-3

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Dec 22, 2015

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Chapter 1Introduction

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 1 –25

[In 1976, Margaret Thatcher told a biographer that she had ‘changed everything’.1 This was a bold claim for an Opposition Leader scarcely a year into the role. Upon her death in 2013, even hostile obituarists agreed that ‘the Thatcher years were a watershed … the ideals of collective effort, full...
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Chapter 2Policymaking: Structures, Ideas and Influences

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 26 –57

[In this chapter, we will seek to provide an outline of Conservative policymaking in the 1960s and 1970s. We will seek to show how the three models of supply-side reform, the New Realism, and Powellism competed with one another for primacy. We will also indicate the processes through which this...
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Chapter 3Tax and Spend: Towards a Smaller State?

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 58 –88

[In November 1978, Arthur Cockfield addressed the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS).1 As will appear, Cockfield and the IFS had played, and would continue to play, important parts in debates over taxation and spending. Cockfield claimed to detect a turning point on spending and associated...
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Chapter 4From Prices and Incomes Policy to Sado-Monetarism?

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 89 –125

[Prices and Incomes Policy was once a key tool of British economic management. Thus, in 1966, one could find William Brown, fresh from Oxford, engaged at Labour’s new National Board for Prices and Incomes (NBPI) in a ‘very British attempt at trying to deal with a rather bewildering problem, by...
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Chapter 5Conservative Industrial Policy: The End of the Mixed Economy?

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 126 –159

[In June 1979, the DTI Longer Term Steering Group made a presentation to the CBI, based on work done over the previous two years. ‘The message … was … that the causes of Britain’s industrial decline are long established and deep-rooted. If Britain’s decline continues at the rate it has done since...
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Chapter 6Trade Unions: The Discipline of Law?

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 160 –190

[By 1979, Lord Denning was nearing the end of a distinguished judicial career. He had been instrumental in spreading the ‘discipline of law’ into numerous areas of British life. However, he complained that ‘the law can do nothing’ in the industrial field, for ‘Parliament has granted [the unions]...
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Chapter 7Britain’s Role in the World Economy

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 191 –221

[British governments have long struggled with the relationship between the domestic and the world economies. Thus, many governments have failed to resolve the ‘trilemma’, the trade-off between the variables of exchange rates, capital movements and domestic policy.1 Certainly, the economic debates...
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Chapter 8Conclusion

Williamson, Adrian

Pages: 222 –240

[What then has emerged from the preceding discussion? How does this investigation and analysis develop existing scholarship? What remains to be thought about and fought over?]

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