Inside Thatcher’s Monetarism Experiment: The Promise, the Failure, the Legacy - Couverture rigide

Lankester, Tim

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1447371356 ISBN 13 : 9781447371359

Editeur : Policy Press, 2024

Synopsis

In 1979, Margaret Thatcher’s new government was faced with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. In response, Thatcher pursued an economic policy which rejected the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists: a policy based on the doctrine of monetarism.

Tim Lankester was the private secretary for economic affairs to Thatcher during the early years of her government. His insider’s account explains her attitudes and decisions and those of the other main players in this deeply damaging experiment in economic policy making, which promised much but completely failed to deliver.

Offering fascinating insights into one of the most unsuccessful episodes of British economic history, he also examines the legacy of monetarism for the economy today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sir Tim Lankester, KCB, was Margaret Thatcher's first private secretary for economic affairs.. He was subsequently Britain's representative on the boards of the IMF and the World Bank; Permanent Secretary at the former Overseas Development Administration; Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of The Politics and Economics of Britain's Foreign Aid: The Pergau Dam Affair (Routledge, 2013).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Policy Press
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447371356
• ISBN 13: 9781447371359
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
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