
Britain's Economic Problem Revisited
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
3rd Edition
Published on 14. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
LXVI, 256 pages
978-0-333-64771-4 (ISBN)
Description
This 1996 edition of Britain's Economic Problem opens with a substantial new chapter, 'Bacon and Eltis after 20 Years', in which the authors assess the impact of the policies of successive Conservative governments to bring British public expenditure under control. They also develop their theory and apply it to Sweden which has experienced the greatest increase in public expenditure of any European economy. This edition includes a complete reprint of the 1978 second edition of Britain's Economic Problem: Too Few Producers which Harry G. Johnson described as 'interesting, both for its explanation of 'the British disease' and for the economic-theoretical foundations on which its analysis is based'. The original book provided a new explanation of the decline of the British economy which showed how a growing shift of Britain's resources from the production of goods and services which can be marketed at home and overseas to the provision of unmarketed public services simultaneously:- reduced the rate of growth and weakened the balance of payments - reduced investment and the economy's ability to provide productive jobs - fuelled the accelerating inflation and obstructive trade union behaviour from which Britain suffered.
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Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
LXVI, 256 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
413 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-64771-4 (9780333647714)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-24613-7
Schweitzer Classification
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Content
Foreword; Robert Skidelsky - Preface to the First Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Introduction: Bacon and Eltis after Twenty Years - Where Britain Went Wrong - The Lost Opportunities - Alternative Solutions - The Fundamental Problem - First Steps Towards a Solution - The Problem in Canada and the USA - The Underlying Economic Theory: the Implications for Inflation, Employment and Growth of a Fall in the Share of Output that is Marketed - The Statistical Background and the Derivation of the Charts - Index