An introduction to the issues surrounding the problem of United Kingdom's economic decline and the reasons put forward to explain this phenomenon.

The Question of Uk Decline: State, Society and Economy

History

Coates, David

Europe

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

This book brings together in one place the liberal and conservative arguments that face the Republican and Democratic parties in the run-up to the 2008 election. In each chapter, David Coates lays out the popular conservative case and then presents a point-by-point liberal response. Each chapter challenges right-wing ways of framing the issue and pulls discussion back into the civilized center of American politics. The sources and evidence sustaining both conservative and liberal arguments are listed in endnotes and developed more fully on an associated blog site.
A Liberal Tool Kit helps to redress the conservative bias in the way news and arguments are generally reported. Coates argues that conservative media outlets are currently more powerful and numerous than liberal ones, contending that conservative arguments tend to be presented more clearly than their less simplistic, more nuanced liberal alternatives. In this book, he presents the complexities of the conservative arguments while at the same time clarifying liberal positions in straightforward, everyday language, so leveling the playing field.

A Liberal Tool Kit: Progressive Responses to Conservative Arguments

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Praeger

Industrial Policy in Britain provides an introduction to, and assessment of, the theory and practice of industrial policy and government-industry relations since 1945. It ranges widely covering all the key industrial sectors - including agriculture and services as well as energy and manufacturing - at local, national and European level.

Industrial Policy in Britain

Business & Money

Economics

Palgrave

This revised book examines the different ways in which the UK has been run since 1945, showing how the country has been organized, integrated and led. It documents the important ways in which the UK's situation and character has altered, looking at the country's changing position in the world, at the changing character of the economy and social structure, and at the changing role and preoccupations of the state. The analysis is concerned with markets, hierarchies and networks. The book is aimed at first-year undergraduates studying social science and modern history, and at A Level history and politics students.

Running the country

Hodder Educational

Capitalism: The Basics

The global economy is dominated by a powerful set of established and emerging capitalisms, from the long-standing capitalist economies of the West to the rising economies of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) countries. An understanding of capitalism is therefore fundamental to understanding the modern world. Capitalism: The Basics is an accessible introduction to a variety of capitalisms and explores key topics such as: <ul>
<li>the history of major capitalist economies;</li> <li>the central role played by both states and markets in the global economy;</li> <li>the impact of capitalism on wages, workers and welfare;</li> <li>approaches to the analysis of capitalism, and choices for capitalism’s future.</li> </ul>
Examining capitalism from both above and below, featuring a range of case studies from around the globe, and including a comprehensive glossary, this book is the ideal introduction for students studying capitalism.

Routledge

New Labour in Power

A systematic and comprehensive study of the early performance of New Labour in power. It brings together the results of a co-ordinated research initiative underway in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, charting the developing relationship between election promise and government policy across the whole sweep of New Labour's manifesto agenda. Each chapter examines New Labour's initial comments, charts opening policy moves, and traces policy trajectories in each major department of state; so generating a comprehensive audit of New Labour's electoral fidelity and an academically-informed assessment of New Labour's likely policy trajectory though its first period of office.

New Labour in power

Lawler, Peter

Manchester University Press

A Socialist Anatomy of Britain

Johnston, Gordon

Blackwell Pub.

Polity Pr

Models of Capitalism: Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era

The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.

Polity

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