This paper, prepared for the forthcoming new edition of the Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, provides an assessment of the long-term development of British economic policy and of its impact. It charts, first, the transformation in the scale and scope of government since the...

This paper offer a guide to how the British experience of 1929–39 may provide useful macroeconomic lessons for the present once due regard is made for historical contingency and context. It re-examines the forces that shaped policy and what we know about policy impact, focusing on, first, the...

An exploration of the literature connecting Britain's relative economic decline to the 1990s to the claims made (notably in Bacon and Eltis 1976) that it was the excessive growth of the public sector which was principally responsible

This paper has two purposes: first, to survey existing quantitative analyses of economics and the economics profession; and, second, to suggest that a more rigorous quantitative approach towards certain aspects of the subject will not be possible until historians of economic thought take fuller...

The economic record of the Thatcher governments (1979-90) remains highly contestable. Using the policy evaluation literature this paper seeks to introduce some rigour into an otherwise highly ideological literature