Goodbye, Great Britain: The 1976 IMF Crisis

by Alec Cairncross and Kathleen Burk

In this authoritative and gripping book--the first full account of the 1976 International Monetary Fund crisis--Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross peel back the surface of the most searing economic crisis of postwar Britain to reveal its historical roots and contemporary context. During the spring of 1976, the plummeting value of the British pound against the U.S. dollar triggered a traumatic economic and political crisis. International confidence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300057288
• ISBN13: 9780300057287
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"