Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France

by Peter A. Hall

Book Overview

For over one hundred years, the British economy has been in decline relative to other industrialized countries. This book explores the origins of Britain's economic problems and develops a striking new argument about the sources of decline. It goes on to analyze the evolution of economic policy in postwar Britain from the development of Keynesianism to the rise of monetarism under Margaret Thatcher. France, by contrast, experienced an economic miracle...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195205235
• ISBN13: 9780195205237
• Release Date: November 1986
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 340 Pages