Elizabeth Durbin

New Jerusalems

The Labour Party and the Economics of Democratic Socialism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1985. Against the background of the economic turmoil of the 1930s, a group of young economists working for the Labour Party thrashed out the theoretical and practical implications of the Keynesian revolution. New Jerusalems examines in this collective enterprise in economic policy-making.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781138333635
• ISBN-10: 1138333638
• Artikelnr.: 54710392

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Durbin

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Roy Hattersley
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: The Heritage
1. Economics, Policy Making and the Labour Party 2. Market Theory and Socialist Economics 3. Economic Policy and the Labour Party 1918-31
Part Two: The Search
4. New Brooms, New Policies: The Labour Party 1931-5 5. The New Generation 6. Cole and the New Fabians Attack Traditional Policy 7. The New Fabians Attack Unemployment 8. The new Fabians Plan for Socialism 9. The New Generation Rethinks Economic Strategy 10. Dalton Organises His Experts and Labour's Financial Policy
Part Three: Socialism in Our Time
11. The New Socialist Economics 12. Labour's New Programme 13. The New Economic Revisionism 14. Conclusions
Notes
Select Bibliography
Interviews
Index