Jim Tomlinson

The Politics of Decline

Understanding Postwar Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In this text, Tomlinson reveals how the perception of economic decline has been manipulated so as to advance particular political causes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9781138161344
• ISBN-10: 1138161349
• Artikelnr.: 69946638

Autorenporträt

Jim Tomlinson

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements. List of tables. List of Abbreviations. 1. The Importance
of decline. Decline and declinism. Plan of the book. 2. Inventing decline.
Government and economic performance. Calculating decline. Industrial
production. Productivity. Britain and world trade. The culture of decline.
3. Decline and the Left. Labour and the economy to the mid-1950s. Labour
and declinism. The Marxist Left and decline. Conclusions. 4. Decline and
the Right. Origins of declinism. The Conservative road to declinism.
Culprits for decline: trade unions. The ideologues of decline: Barnett and
Wiener. 5. Decline as history, history as decline. The growth debate. The
academic issues. Economic history. Growth and declinism. The underpinnings
of declinism. The career of declinism. Declinism as history. Historical
declinism as politics. 6. Decline in the 1970s and 1980s. Decline in the
1970s. Causes of panic. The culture of decline and the panic of the 1970s.
An unjustified panic? The impact on politics. Conclusions. 7. The present
and future of decline. Political responsibility. Measuring decline.
Globalisation. Competitiveness. 'Education, education, education'.
Conclusions. Index.