ISBN:
9780230502956
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 261 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
Parallel Title:
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Keywords:
Political economy
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Great Britain Politics and government
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International economics
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Political science
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International economic relations.
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Europe
Abstract:
The book considers Labour's economic strategy as it developed through the party's long period of opposition between 1979 and 1997. This history argues strongly that accounts of Labour's recent past which claim that the Party was driven by a combination of Thatcherism and opinion polls are flawed. It offers an alternative account which stresses the importance of debates within and around the Party about how the economy should be understood, the role of markets and the state, and British industrial decline
DOI:
10.1057/9780230502956
