The construction of an economic forecast involves a blend of the use of a set of formal equations summarising to the best of the model-builders' ability the dominant characteristics of the past behaviour of the economy, together with a complex set of judgements about the way in which these...

This note outlines the principal results of an exhaustive study of Industrialisation and the Basis for Trade which will be published by Cambridge University Press later this year.

The National Institute has launched a series of conferences on important issues of economic policy. The conference papers and accounts of the conference discussions are being published by Heinemann Educational Books. The first two books in the series, entitled Demand Management and...