Product Description: This book, originally published in 1975, deals with the sources of economic growth, inflation and the prospects of bringing it under control, floating exchange rates and restrictions on international capital movements. Although aimed at the non-specialist, professional economists willa slo find the book stimulating...read more

Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service rules – he kept a diary in which he documented and reflected on day-to-day events. This first volume, published in 1989, deals with the years between 1947 and 1953, in which Robert Hall acted as Director of the Economic Section and was faced with a variety of lingering uncertainties. This is a highly readable and fascinating account of what went on inside government in the post-war years. The book provides a unique picture of the relationship between Whitehall and Downing Street, and those people who shaped this challenging period in British economic history. Edited by Sir Alec Cairncross, who succeeded Lord Roberthall as Economic Adviser to HM Government in 1961, this reissue will interest any student researching policy and decision-making in the post-war period.

Product Description: Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official...read more

Product Description: Years of Recovery was the first comprehensive study of the transition from war to peace in the British economy under the Labour government of 1945–51. It includes a full account of the successive crises and turning-points in those hectic years – the coal and convertibility crises of 1947, devaluation in 1949 and rearmament in 1951...read more

Product Description: The papers in this volume cover the following areas:* Government and Industry* The Managed Economy* Monetary Policy* Fiscal Policy* Economic Forecasting and Economic Planning* Economists in Government

Product Description: This book is a sequal to Britain's Economic Prospects, the report issued in 1968 by the Brookings Institution and universally accepted as the most thorough and comprehensive study of the British Economy to have ever appeared. Two years later, just after the British General election, six fo the American economists who prepared the Brookings Report met with a number of other leading economists from Britain and the United States, at a weekend conference at Ditchley Park, to review the findings of the report...read more

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Product Description: Sir Alec Cairncross was an economist (he studied under Keynes at Cambridge), civil servant, and academic. Completed shortly before his death in 1998, this is an illuminating and entertaining account written with clarity and humor about a man who played an instrumental role in economics and economic policy throughout this century, especially as it became an essential element in British government policy...read more

Product Description: This volume collects together Sir Alec Cairncross' most important contributions to the economic history of the post-1939 period. They address such major issues as the role of economists in the 2nd World War, the significance of the Marshall plan and Britain's relative economic decline...read more

Product Description: In this fully revised and updated second edition, Sir Alec Cairncross provides a lucid overview and analysis of British economic policy and performance from 1945 to the present. The author takes a chronological approach, introducing the events of the period with an account of changing ideas on economic policy and performance...read more

Product Description: Sir Austin Robinson had a career unique among economists. A close associate of Keynes, he began as a seaplane pilot in the First World War and spent two years in the 1920s tutoring a Maharajah in India. He was at the centre of economic policy-making during and after World War 2, and in postwar years was professor, editor, promoter of economic debate and economic adviser in many countries...read more

Product Description: These essays, many of them previously unpublished or extensively revised since original publication, focus on a topic of enduring concern to economists, the role of economists and economic theory in the formation of government policy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A detailed study of domestic and overseas investment in the Victorian age, together with an analysis of the fluctuations that accompanied it. Attention is focused on two relationships - that between foreign and domestic investment, and that between the migration of labour and capital...read more

Product Description: Los ensayos aquí reunidos aportan la reflexión de uno de los más prestigiados economistas del siglo XX sobre algunos de los debates económicos que han marcado la transformación de los modos de intercambio comercial, desarrollo y ajuste en tiempos de crisis...read more

Product Description: In this text, Sir Alec Cairncross provides an overview and analysis of British economic policy and performance from 1945 to the present. The book takes a chronological approach, introducing this history with an account of changing ideas on economic policy and performance, discussing key concepts including economic planning, demand management, inflation and monetarism...read more

Product Description: The first study of the British Ministry of Aircraft Production, this book examines the war-time policy and operation of the planning department. Topics covered include the organization of the department, production planning and specific programmes.

Product Description: The Economic Section was the first group of professional economists to operate at the centre of the British government. In this volume two former members trace the history of the section 1939 to 1961. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of economics, politics and history...read more

Product Description: This is an account of the workings of government from 1947 to 1961 as seen through the diaries of Robert Hall, now Lord Roberthall, who was economic advisor to a succession of governments. In his time he was Director of the Economic Section and Economic Advisor to HMG and exercised considerable influence on economic policy, serving under eight Chancellors...read more

Product Description: A personal account of the negotiations that took place in the winter of 1945-46 between American, British, French, and Soviet representatives over a Reparation Plan for Germany.

Product Description: En el primero de los tres grupos aparecen seis ensayos sobre la distribución del ingreso en el proceso de desarrollo y sobre las oportunidades de empleo. Los siete ensayos siguientes se consagran a diversos aspectos de la estrategia de desarrollo, tales como la industrialización y la confianza colectiva...read more

Product Description: Written in the late 1930s and during WWII, these poems reflect the events of the period and their impact on a young man living through them.