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How did the people of Dundee respond to the challenges of being the most economically globalized city in the world in the years before the First World War? This 'global' history of Dundee's industrial era combines economic, political and social history. It explores the significance of empire for British policy.

Surveying governmental industrial policy in Britain, James Tomlinson explores the perennial concern of government to improve the efficiency and the competitiveness of British industry. Organized chronologically, the book focuses on the formation of policy-making and policy implementation, according to the ideas and beliefs that have dominated this century. Thus, industrial policy is traced through wars and recessions, the building of the welfa...

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The key aim of this new book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in such ways as to advance particular political causes.

Economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In this text, Tomlinson reveals how the perception of economic decline has been manipulated so as to advance particular political causes.

This comprehensive account of British economic policy since the turn of the century covers both macro and micro issues, and offers a coherent analysis of the various influences on public policy. Broadly chronological, it covers institutional aspects (such as the changing role of policy-making ministries), political debate, and economic theory.

A distinctive new account of British economic life since the Second World War, showing how successive governments have managed the British people by managing the narrative on economic matters, from the post-war notion of austerity to the recent 'debts and deficits' of post-financial crash Britain.

Encuadernación: Cartoné Colección: CiempiésLas historias de Jill Tomlinson son de lectura obligada para los niños británicos. Protagonizadas por entrañables animales estas historias abren nuevos mundos para los pequeños lectores...El estilo particular de las ilustraciones de Anna Laura Cantone no dejan indiferente. Dándole una imagen totalmente renovada a este clásico de la literatura.

Tomlinson charters the route of British macroeconomic policy in the post-war era. He argues that the aims of macroeconomic policy haven't been constant, the emphasis has shifted from one item to another, and this uncertainty over objectives goes a long way to explaining why macroeconomics management hasn't been a success.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Tomlinson charters the route of British macroeconomic policy in the post-war era. He argues that the aims of macroeconomic policy haven't been constant, the emphasis has shifted from one item to another, and this uncertainty over objectives goes a long way to explaining why macroeconomics management hasn't been a success.

The stories in Things Kept, Things Left Behind explore the ambiguities of kept secrets, the tangles of abandoned pasts, and uneasy accommodations. Jim Tomlinson's characters each face the desire to reclaim dreams left behind, along with something of the dreamer that was also lost. Starkly rendered, these spiraling characters inhabit a specific place and class---small-town Kentucky, working-class America---but the stories, told in all their hum...

The eleven stories in Nothing Like An Ocean confirm the promise of Jim Tomlinson's award-winning debut, Things Kept, Things Left Behind. Set in and around the fictional town of Spivey, Kentucky, the stories spotlight small-town lives that are thrown into quiet turmoil by unexpected events or outsiders: a man's broken-down car prompts a bittersweet hometown reunion, a husband is surprised to find that the idyllic spot where he courted his wife ...

Available in paperback for the first time, this book is the third in the three volume set The Labour governments 1964-1970 and concentrates on Britain's economic policy under the Labour governments in the 1960s. It assesses the origins, development and outcomes of the attempts made by the 1964-1970 Labour governments under Harold Wilson to modernise the British economy. This is the first comprehensive and archivally-based work to offer a detai...

This major study analyses the economic policies of the Attlee government.

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