The politics of decline understanding post-war Britain
The key aim of the book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in an exceptionally tendentious manner to advance particular political causes.
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2001
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The politics of decline |b understanding post-war Britain |c Jim Tomlinson |
| 260 | |a Harlow, UK |b Longman |c 2001 | ||
| 300 | |a x, 122 p. |b ill. |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | |a The importance of decline -- Decline and declinism -- Plan of the book -- Inventing decline -- Government and economic performance -- Calculating decline -- Industrial production -- Productivity -- Britain and world trade -- The culture of decline -- Decline and the Left -- Labour and the economy to the mid-1950s -- Labour and declinism -- The Marxist Left and decline -- Decline and the Right -- Origins of declinism -- The Conservative road to declinism -- Culprits for decline: trade unions -- The ideologues of decline: Barnett and Wiener -- Decline as history, history as decline -- The growth debate -- The academic issues -- Economic history -- Growth and declinism -- The underpinnings of declinism -- The career of declinism -- Declinism as history -- Historical declinism as politics -- Decline in the 1970s and 1980s -- Decline in the 1970s -- Causes of panic -- The culture of decline and the panic of the 1970s -- An unjustified panic? -- The impact on politics -- The present and future of decline -- Political responsibility -- Measuring decline -- Globalisation -- Competitiveness -- 'Education, education, education'. | ||
| 520 | |a The key aim of the book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in an exceptionally tendentious manner to advance particular political causes. | ||
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