Applying the Dismal Science

When Economists Give Advice to Governments

I McLean editor C Jennings editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave USA

Published:16th Dec '05

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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'.

'That is the great strength of this book: it forces us to ask why we do economics, not from a purely abstract set of values, but rather from the perspective of those who have had to wrestle with these issues on a day-to-day basis.' - Roger Vickerman, Public Administration

ISBN: 9781403994592

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 312g

231 pages