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Fascinating new book by the economic historian Jim Tomlinson ... The reader is led through a detailed study of all the political-economic issues that successive post-war governments have faced ... The result is a significant contribution, not only to the study of popular understanding of the economy, but to the wider history of the political economy in modern Britain. * Christopher Godden, Times Literary Supplement *

This book is an excellent read regarding British economic history from 1942 to 2016. The factual information presented is of great significance to British citizens and anyone interested in future progress ... Highly recommended. * CHOICE * Fascinating new book by the economic historian Jim Tomlinson ... The reader is led through a detailed study of all the political-economic issues that successive post-war governments have faced ... The result is a significant contribution, not only to the study of popular understanding of the economy, but to the wider history of the political economy in modern Britain. * Christopher Godden, Times Literary Supplement *

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Jim Tomlinson was educated at LSE and spent the years 1977 to 2004 at Brunel University. From 2004 to 2013 he was Bonar Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee, and in 2013 he became Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Glasgow. He has published widely on the historical political economy of modern Britain, and his most recent book, Dundee and the Empire: Juteopolis, 1850-1939, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2014.

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