For those of you trying to make sense of the current state of the economy and why the period since the early 1990s has been ‘NICE’ (Mervyn King’s term for a non-inflationary consistently expansionary economy) you might have a look at:
‘The turning point’, The Economist, 22 September 2007, pp. 33-5.
There is much that is good […]
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For those of you trying to make sense of the current state of the economy and why the period since the early 1990s has been ‘NICE’ (Mervyn King’s term for a non-inflationary consistently expansionary economy) you might have a look at:
‘The turning point’, The Economist, 22 September 2007, pp. 33-5.
There is much that is good here though its use of the term ‘golden age’ is very misleading.
Other things that have come across my desk this past couple of weeks which may be of interest:
Blastland, M. and Dilnot, A.W. (2007) The tiger that isn’t: seeing through a world of numbers. London: Profile Books. [Based on the recent Radio 4 series and excellent for identifying a really basic set of problems about policy and the (rational) electorate.]
On voting:
Green, J. (2007) ‘When voters and parties agree: valence issues and party competition’, Political Studies, 55 (3), pp. 629-55.
Green-Pedersen, C. (2007) ‘The growing importance of issue competition: the changing nature of party competition in western Europe’, Political Studies, 55 (3), pp. 607-28.
The latest volume of this essential series:
Park, A. et al. (eds) (2007) British social attitudes: the 23rd report: perspectives on a changing society. London: Sage.
About the US, but easily transferable to the British context:
Caplan, B. (2007) The myth of the rational voter: why democracies choose bad policies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
On contemporary history a useful review article by a member of the department:
Lowe, R. (2007) ‘Life begins in the seventies?: writing and rewriting the history of postwar Britain’, Journal of Contemporary History, 42 (1), pp. 161-9.
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