1. Life Before Economics 1926-1955 -- 2. Under Treasury Rules 1956-64 -- 3. Short-term Forecasting -- 4. Public Expenditure -- 5. Planning, Tax Reform and Structural Change -- 6. Gatecrashing the Cambridge Tradition -- 7. Public Expenditure Revisited -- 8. Sector Balances and ‘New Cambridge’...

Energy security requires the affordable, reliable and sustainable supply of energy, for commercial and household use. A low-cost and uninterrupted energy supply is fundamental for economic development and political stability. China's emergence as a major world industrial producer means that its...

The scepticism of economists—mainstream and heterodox—towards "new economy" ideas goes beyond the indignation of long-established traditions being told to rewrite their basic rules. With its emphasis on trade through interand intra-corporate networks, the "new economy" presents a model of...

Symbolic consumption is assessed as an evolution of previously identified conspicuous consumption, after this has undergone a “de-materialization” that is socially, as much as ecologically, driven. As Veblen observed, the shift of wealth towards new forms of physical and financial capital...