Going south : why Britain will have a Third World economy by 2014 / Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elliott, Larry.

Contributor:

Atkinson, Dan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Economic conditions--1997-.

Great Britain.

Economic conditions.

Great Britain--Economic policy--1997-.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

ix, 389 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

The World as we Know it is coming to an End...

With a second recession looming, Britain is facing a moment of truth. In the hundred years from 1914 to 2014 Britain will have exchanged its superpower status for that of a 'developing country', and the symtoms are already apparent: chronic debt, volatile growth and painful vulnerability to external events.

The names may change with intellectual fashion - the Developing World, the Third World, Less-Developed Countries, Emerging Markets or simply the Global South. But the destination is the same.

We Are Going South - Rapidly.

The age of the quick fix is over and Britain now faces the challenging task of turning itself around. But are we willing to make the sacrifices necessary to save our economy? Book jacket.

Contents:

1 June 1914: A snapshot as the storm breaks 15

2 June 2014 in Lagos-on-Thames 51

3 Welcome to the beautiful south 87

4 A century of failure: the big fixes and why they went wrong 123

5 Into free-fall: the no-strategy strategy 163

6 Up where we belong: is Britain's economic crisis all in the mind? 195

7 The great reckoning 235

8 Desperately seeking Sweden, or Freeport Ho! The search for a development model 269

9 Hanging on in there: investment during the crisis 301

10 After the illusions 335.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-371) and index.

ISBN:

9780230392540

0230392547

OCLC:

775026849