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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Harlow, UK
Longman
2001
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Table of Contents:
- 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'.