Thatcherism's Legacy (SS, TB I)
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A couple of useful papers crossed my desk this week:
Gifford, C. (2006) ‘The rise of post-imperial populism: The case of right-wing Euroscepticism in Britain’, European Journal of Political Research, 45 (5), pp. 851-69.
Nickell, S.J. (2005) ‘Practical issues in United Kingdom monetary policy, 2000-2005’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 139, pp. 1-33. Nickell was a MPC […]
Written by Roger on January 19th, 2007 with no comments.
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The latest Treasury assessment of progress with improving Britain’s productivity record:
Treasury/DTI, (2006) Productivity in the UK 6: progress and new evidence. London: HMSO.
has a lot of material relevant to post-1970s economic trends (right up to the present day) and contains the latest Treasury/DTI framework on understanding the dynamics of productivity growth and of appropriate government […]
Written by Roger on December 13th, 2006 with no comments.
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Just published:
Brown, G. (2006) Moving Britain foreward: selected speeches, 1997-2006, ed. W. Stevenson.London: Bloomsbury.
Denver, D. (2007) Elections and voters in Britain, 2nd edn.London: Palgrave. [Latest edition includes the 2005 election]
Lau, R. and Redlawsk, D.P. (2006) How voters decide: information processing during election campaigns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Unfortunately the empirical material is American but this […]
Written by Roger on December 7th, 2006 with no comments.
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The latest issue of the IMF’s quarterly magazine, Finance and Development, 43.3 (September 2006) has an article which will be of interest (’Reform in Europe: what went right’, which offers a concise analysis in comparative context of Britain’s econonmic reforms since 1979), and a series of articles on pensions and demographic change which will make […]
Written by Roger on December 4th, 2006 with no comments.
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Today’s Guardian has a predictable piece on the timidity of New Labour by Martin Jacques, former editor of Marxism Today (also formerly a lecturer in economic history in this department). This contains the very good news that this most important magazine (which ceased publication in 1991, and gave us Hall and Jacques 1983 on the […]
Written by Roger on November 29th, 2006 with no comments.
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Politics just got very interesting
If you have a look at today’s Guardian, the lead article (‘Cameron told it’s time to ditch Churchill’) trails a forthcoming Centre for Social Justice pamphlet by Greg Clark, a Cameron policy adviser (who is overseeing the comprehensive policy review) and member of the shadow Cabinet, which suggests some interesting strategic […]
Written by Roger on November 22nd, 2006 with no comments.
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The announcement of Milton Friedman’s death (16.11.06) has been accompanied by much comment (albeit of very variable quality) about his contribution to the revival of neo-liberalism and his campaign against Keynesian economics.
One of the HET lists I subscribe to includes a collection of articles on Friedman and his contribution to politics and economics on both […]
Written by Roger on November 20th, 2006 with no comments.
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The latest issue of Oxford Review of Economic Policy* has the theme ‘Fiscal restraints and the welfare state’. You’ll find the following particularly useful:
Scruggs, L. (2006) ‘The generosity of social insurance, 1971-2002’, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 22 (3), pp. 349-64.
Boltho, A. and Glyn, A. (2006) ‘Prudence or profligacy: deficits, debt and fiscal consolidation’, Oxford […]
Written by Roger on November 14th, 2006 with 1 comment.
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1. Just checking thateveryone does knows about Google Scholar? This is the quickest way of finding recent academic literature on a topic. You can then use Google proper to search the web.
2. In compiling the handbook for ‘Rich Store of Stupid Decisions’, my third-year LRU which some of you are taking next term, I came […]
Written by Roger on November 10th, 2006 with no comments.
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Browsing through the Treasury’s web site for some fiscal policy materials for my third-year LRU ‘A Rich Store of Stupid Decisions’ I came across a link to a set of lectures held in the Treasury between 2004-5 on microeconomic issues in public policy. These have been collected together in Microeconomic Overview of Public Policy. The […]
Written by Roger on November 9th, 2006 with no comments.
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