The Politics Of Planning: The Debate On Economic Planning In Britain In The 1930's (Oxford Historical Monographs)

Features of The Politics of Planning: The Debate on Economic Planning in Britain in the 1930's (Oxford Historical Monographs)

ReviewRitschel provides a very lucid introduction and conclusion and an exhaustive narrative which outlines the principal publications and ideas within them This is a book of ideasRitschels book is to be highly recommendedAlbionProduct DescriptionThe concept of economic planning was a central theme of the popular economic policy debate in the 1930s Dr Ritschel traces the many interpretations of planning and examines the process of idealogical construction and dissemination of the new economic ideas He concludes with an explanation of the planners retreat later in the decade from the economics of planning towards the far less ambitious but also less contentious alternativethe middle way of Keynesian economicsAbout the AuthorDaniel Ritschel Assistant Professor of History University of Maryland Baltimore County