Russell Jones

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First published in 1987. This fascinating study provides an understanding of the failings of the post-war era of active macroeconomic policy-making, and only by a better comprehension of past failings can we hope to provide the successful policies for the present and future. Meer

This book describes the economic and political history of the past half a century, examining the challenges confronted by successive governments and their Chancellors, the policies employed for good or ill, and the desperate search for a panacea that could arrest the nation's relative decline and return the country to its supposed former glories. Meer

Over a hundred and twenty years Japan traced a unique pathfrom outright backwardness to the elite tier of the most advanced nations,only to suffer an even more precipitous fall from grace. Meer