Overview

This collection includes ten classic texts of 20th-century British political economy. The texts deal with managed capitalism, the welfare state and the middle ground, and should promote readers' understanding of British politics and economic ideology in the years since the Great Depression called into question the automacity of the laissez-faire market. The issues themselves are relevant to all countries and these texts have been influential throughout the world. This edition makes previously out-of-print or difficult to obtain works available as a valuable resource for scholars and other readers with an interest in exhange and authority, the market and the State. The introduction analyzes the impact of the texts on 20th-century British political economy and the development of economic thought in this period. Each volume is introduced by an editorial note containing information on the text, a biographical sketch of the author and bibliographical references.

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'Beautifully produced ... [with] a good introduction and useful biographical sketches for each author ... Theories of the Mixed Economy makes available a series of influential texts which between them helped to define the conventional wisdom of post-war economic policy.' The Times Literary Supplement

Author Information

Editor David Reisman is Professor of Economics at the University of Surrey. His publications include: Adam Smith's Sociological Economics; Richard Titmuss; Galbraith and Market Capitalism, State and Welfare; Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics, Theories of Collective Action, The Political Economy of Health Care and Anthony Crosland: The Mixed Economy. Dr Reisman is the editor of the 10 volume set Democratic Socialism in Britain published by Pickering & Chatto in 1996

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