Managing change : a guide to British economic policy / Graham Ingham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingham, Graham.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Economic policy--1997-.

Great Britain.

Economic policy.

Fiscal policy--Great Britain.

Fiscal policy.

Industrial policy--Great Britain.

Industrial policy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Summary:

This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps between theory and practice, and the difficulties of making policy in the real world. It looks at how the implementation of theory and the development of policy is affected by the historical and international contexts in which policy-makers have to operate; the difficulty of being certain about which competing theory to choose; and the need to take account of political feasibility as well as economic desirability.

Contents:

1 The international context 1

2 The historical context 24

3 The structure of policy-making 52

4 British policy and the European Union 79

5 Inflation 98

6 The labour market 118

7 Fiscal policy and taxation 136

8 The exchange rate 153

9 Public spending 171

10 Industrial policy and economic growth 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-203) and index.

ISBN:

0719057647

0719057655

OCLC:

43323795