Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and...

The Workplace Employment Relations Survey series is a tremendously useful source of data for industrial relations researchers. But, like all large-scale secondary datasets, it has a number of design problems. These have not been articulated previously in much depth. Looking at the 2004...

An addition to the 'International Papers in Political Economy Series', this edited work offers new developments in economic policy and theory. The experiences of privatisation and private finance initiatives are looked at in detail