Applying the Dismal Science

IAIN MCLEAN is Professor of Politics and Director of the Public Policy Unit, Oxford University, UK, and a Fellow of Nuffield College, UK. He has previously worked in Newcastle and Warwick, UK, and Stanford and Yale, USA. His previous publications include Rational Choice and British Politics, Aberfan: Government and Disasters and The Fiscal Crisis of the United Kingdom. COLIN JENNINGS is Lecturer in Economics at Queen's College, Oxford University, UK. He obtained his PhD in Economics at Southampton University, UK. He has published articles in the Scottish Journal

Successive chapters show what went wrong in UK economic policy making in the 1960s and 1970s, what goes better now, and what still goes wrong. The editors explain how recent developments in economic theory have improved economic policy making.In this exciting collection, Iain McLean and Colin Jennings bring together some of the most eminent social scientists to have advised British governments since 1964. Successive chapters show what went wrong in UK economic policy making in the 1960s and 1970s, what goes better now, and what still goes wrong. The editors explain how recent developments in economic theory have improved economic policy making. Contributors include two former Chief Economic Advisers at HM Treasury, and the co-designer of the successful '3G spectrum auction'.