The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951 /

In the general election of 1931, the Labour Party campaigned on the slogan 'Plan or Perish'. The party's pledge to create a planned socialist economy was a novelty, and marked the rejection of the gradualist, evolutionary socialism to which Labour had adhered under the leadership of R...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Toye, Richard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Labour Party (Great Britain)
1910-1945
Central planning > Great Britain > History.
Planification impérative > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Central planning
Economic policy
Politics and government
Great Britain > Economic policy > 1918-1945.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1910-1936.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1936-1945.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique économique > 1918-1945.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1910-1936.
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1936-1945.
Great Britain
Electronic resource.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Planning: birth of an idea
  • 2. Plan or perish: 1931 and its impact
  • 3. Practical economics?: 1932-1939
  • 4. The economic consequences of the war
  • 5. Shall the spell be broken?
  • 6. Planning for reconstruction
  • 7. International planning: external economic policy in the 1940s
  • 8. Bricks without straw: unplanned socialism, 1945-1947
  • 9. Planning, priorities and politics, 1947-1951
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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