A study of the main changes in the British economy from 1951, focussing on nationalisation and privatisation; unemployment; funding of the NHS and education; deindustrialisation and Britain's changing industrial structure; taxation; inequality; environmental change and policy; and the UK's changing relationship with the EEC and the European Union.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Time, Capital Investment, and the State


• 3: Time, Labour Markets, and Industrial Policy


• 4: Poverty and Inequality


• 5: Health and Education


• 6: Transferring Assets: Public Housing and Nationalised Industries


• 7: Environment, Time, and Space


• 8: Trading Spaces


• 9: Banking, Crises, and Conclusions


• Statistical Appendix

Martin Chick is Professor of Economic History at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include a study of the economic planning of the Attlee governments, 1945-1951, and an analysis of the development of energy policies in the UK, France, and the United States since 1945. His latest project concerns the economic use of the sea and the sea bed, and examines such issues as whaling, fisheries, the law of the sea, and the dumping of hazardous waste at sea.