Government and the Enterprise Since 1900: The Changing Problem of Efficiency - Hardcover

Tomlinson, James; Tomlinson, Jim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198287496 ISBN 13: 9780198287490

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1994

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A chronological account of industrial policy

This book surveys governmental industrial policy in Britain from 1900 to the early 1990s, exploring the perennial concern of governments to improve the efficiency and the competitiveness of British industry. Organized chronologically, it focuses on the formation of policy-making, and policy implementation, according to the ideas and beliefs that have dominated during the century. Thus industrial policy is traced through time of war and recession, through the building of the welfare state and times of growth, and through stagflation, economic liberalism, and deindustrialization. The constant theme of the book is the attempt by all governments to achieve the objectives of high growth, low unemployment, and international competitiveness.

An examination of the effects of government ideologies

Dr Tomlinson reveals both the microeconomic context of industrial policy, and microeconomic effects of these policies. The emphasis is on the formation of policy according to the ideology of the political party in power. Tomlinson also deals with the capacity of each government to carry out its policy, and the ways in which this capacity may be limited by economic constraints, or by the institutions through which industrial policy is implemented.

Detailed case studies

The focus of the book is on British industry, although in parts Tomlinson uses a comparative perspective to set British policy in the world context, most notably during the chapter on the 1980s. The book ends with two case studies, the industries of cotton and cars, to illuminate the policy explored in the previous chapters. Tomlinson concludes that the British government has continuously found an acceptable industrial policy problematic.

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Jim Tomlinson is Reader in Economic History, Economics Department, Brunel University.

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This book surveys the industrial policy of British governments from the beginning of the century to the early 1990s, exploring the perennial concern of administrations of all complexions with high growth, low unemployment, and competitiveness. The analysis proceeds chronologically and focuses on the formation and implementation of policy according to the prevailing ideology of the party in power. Industrial policy is traced through times of war and recession, the building of the welfare state, growth and stagflation, economic liberalism and deindustrialization. Two case studies, of the cotton and car industries, are presented to illustrate the historical discussion. Dr Tomlinson, well established as an analyst of economic history and government policy, here contends that successive British governments have failed in their quest for an acceptable industrial policy that combines the central objectives shared by the major political parties. His trenchant exposition of both the macroeconomic context of industrial policy and its microeconomic effects illuminates the debate on a consistently controversial area of economic policy.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198287496
• ISBN 13: 9780198287490
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 472
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland