Managing change
This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps between theory and practice, and the difficulties of making policy in the real world. It looks at how the implementation of theory and the development of policy is affected by the historical and international contexts in which policy-makers have to operate; the difficulty of being certain about which competing theory to choose; and the need to take account of political feasibility as well as economic desirability.
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Managing change
This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps between theory and practice, and the difficulties of making policy in the real world. It looks at how the implementation of theory and the development of policy is affected by the historical and international contexts in which policy-makers have to operate; the difficulty of being certain about which competing theory to choose; and the need to take account of political feasibility as well as economic desirability.
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Managing change

Managing change

by Graham Ingham
Managing change

Managing change

by Graham Ingham

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This book is a guide to how economic policy is made in modern Britain. It is designed to help the reader understand how the policy process works: who the key actors are, the links and the gaps between theory and practice, and the difficulties of making policy in the real world. It looks at how the implementation of theory and the development of policy is affected by the historical and international contexts in which policy-makers have to operate; the difficulty of being certain about which competing theory to choose; and the need to take account of political feasibility as well as economic desirability.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780719057656
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication date: 05/25/2000
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Graham Ingham is a freelance writer and Research Associate of the Center for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He was formerly Economics Correspondent for BBC Newsnight.

Table of Contents

List of boxes, tables and figuresvi
Prefaceviii
Acknowledgementsxiii
List of abbreviationsxiv
1The international context1
2The historical context24
3The structure of policy-making52
4British policy and the European Union79
5Inflation98
6The labour market118
7Fiscal policy and taxation136
8The exchange rate153
9Public spending171
10Industrial policy and economic growth187
Conclusions199
Further reading202
Index204
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