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Article: Industrial Policy in Britain 1945-1951: Economic Planning, Nationalisation and the Labour Governments
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- Business History Review
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- October 1, 1998
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Industrial Policy in Britain 1945-1951: Economic Planning, Nationalisation and the Labour Governments. By Martin Chick New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. xvi + 221 pp. Tables, bibliographical references, and index. $59.95. ISBN 0521482917
The record of the 1945-51 Labour governments in Britain has always been disputed. The opening of the governments records has done little to replace disagreement with consensus on the merits and success of its various policies. One only needs to compare the titles of Sir Alec Cairncross's Years of Recovery (1985) with Correlli Barnett's The Lost Victory (1995) to appreciate this point. Recently, a second debate has also developed with Jim ...
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