Managing the British Economy in the 1960s: A Treasury Perspective

by Alec Cairncross

In Managing the British Economy in the 1960s Sir Alec Cairncross, who was Economic Adviser to HMG in 1961-64 and Head of the newly-created Government Economic Service in 1964-69, tells the inside story of the making of economic policy under four Chancellors of the Exchequer between 1960 and 1970, first under a Conservative government then under a Labour government. He describes how the Treasury dealt with a whole succession of crises and experimented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333650751
• ISBN13: 9780333650752
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"