Industrial Policy in Britain since 1970: Changing Values, Assumptions and Mechanisms

Chick Martin ()
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Chick Martin: School of History, Classics and Archaeology, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, 4 Teviot Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH8 9AG

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2017, vol. 58, issue 1, 35-57

Abstract: This article examines the change in the fundamental assumptions underpinning industrial policy from the mid-1970s in Britain. It necessarily contrasts the broadly supply-side concerns of industrial policy from the mid-1970s with the more demand-side concerns of the earlier ‘Golden Age’ period from 1945. Where in the earlier period the emphasis in industrial policy was on capital investment and the role of government in compensating for perceived market inefficiency, from the late 1970s this emphasis shifted to the need to improve the flexibility and quality of supply-side factors allied to a more optimistic view of the ability of the market to secure efficient outcomes.

Keywords: Industrial policy; fixed capital investment; unemployment; deindustrialisation; trade unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2017-0003

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