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Yale University Press, 1992. 9780300057287. 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine). Pp. xix + 268, illus with figures and tables (no inscriptions).
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Goodbye, Great Britain: The 1976 IMF Crisis Hardcover - 1992
by Kathleen Burk; Alec Cairncross (With)
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In March 1976 the value of the British pound began to slide. The slide turned into a rout and triggered an economic and political trauma. By September confidence in the pound had collapsed. In April 1975 the Wall Street Journal had run the headline 'Goodbye, Great Britain, ' advising investors to get out of sterling. Now the British Labour government under its new Prime Minister James Callaghan was forced to seek help from the International Monetary Fund, a familiar option for Third World countries but highly unusual for a developed western economy. This expert new study uncovers the roots of the most searing economic crisis of postwar Britain. The weakness and instability of the British economy in the mid-1970s, the consequence in part of the 1973 rise in oil prices, raised international alarm. The US government in particular feared economic crisis would drive Britain into a left-wing siege economy, endangering NATO and the EEC. Anticipating the danger, the US Treasury set out to force Britain to make major domestic policy changes. The sterling crisis provided the opportunity. The IMF provided the weapon. Arriving in London in November 1976, the IMF mission announced that the price for the loan included deep cuts in public expenditure. The consequent political crisis was fought out in private and in public, amongst members of the British Cabinet, the Labour Party, the Treasury and the Bank of England. It involved the US President, Treasury and State Department, the Federal Reserve, the German Chancellor and the Bundesbank. Burk and Cairncross uncover the efforts of the Labour government to escape IMF conditions. They also examine the political agenda, the loss of economic control, therise of monetarist ideas and the change in the climate of opinion. Juxtaposing gripping narrative with expert analysis, the book provides surprising answers to critical questions and reveals how the breakdown of the postwar consensus on macro-economic management paved the way for the triumph of Thatcherism.
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- Title Goodbye, Great Britain: The 1976 IMF Crisis
- Author Kathleen Burk; Alec Cairncross (With)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A
- Date 1992-07-01
- ISBN 9780300057287 / 0300057288
- Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.35 x 1.09 in (24.13 x 16.13 x 2.77 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - Economic policy - 1964-1979, Great Britain - Politics and government -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-42929
- Dewey Decimal Code 332.494
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