Downhill
David Marquand, 19 September 1985
Years of Recovery: British Economic Policy 1945-51
by Alec Cairncross.
Methuen, 527 pp., £35, April 1985,0 416 37920 6 Show More
by Alec Cairncross.
Methuen, 527 pp., £35, April 1985,
The Politics of Recession
by R.W. Johnson.
Macmillan, 275 pp., £20, January 1985,0 333 36786 3 Show More
by R.W. Johnson.
Macmillan, 275 pp., £20, January 1985,
The Labour Government 1974-79: Political Aims and Economic Reality
by Martin Holmes.
Macmillan, 206 pp., £25, May 1985,0 333 36735 9 Show More
by Martin Holmes.
Macmillan, 206 pp., £25, May 1985,
New Jerusalems: The Labour Party and the Economics of Democratic Socialism
by Elizabeth Durbin and Roy Hattersley.
Routledge, 341 pp., £16.95, March 1985,9780710096500 Show More
by Elizabeth Durbin and Roy Hattersley.
Routledge, 341 pp., £16.95, March 1985,
“... in economics. Why the economic failures? Part of the answer is to be found between the lines of Elizabeth Durbin’s important and absorbing study of the ‘New’ Fabian economists of the Thirties, who tried to hammer out an intellectually respectable economic strategy for a future Labour government, in place of the mish-mash of Utopian aspirations ... ”
