Peter Clarke and Clive Trebilcock, eds. Understanding Decline: Perceptions and Realities of British Economic Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1997. Pp. xx, 266. $64.95. ISBN 0-521-56317-8

Abstract

Frontispiece Barry Supple Notes on contributors Note on references Preface Peter Clarke and Clive Trebilcock Introduction: national performance in a personal perspective Barry Supple 1. Fear of failing: economic history and the decline of Britain Barry Supple 2. 'A great deal of ruin in a nation' Donald Winch 3. The security of the realm and the growth of the economy, 1688-1914 Patrick K. O'Brien 4. British economic decline and human resources Simon Szreter 5. The myth of decline: an urban perspective Jay Winter 6. Phoenix: financial services, insurance and economic revival between the wars Clive Trebilcock 7. Keynes, New Jerusalem, and British decline Peter Clarke 8. Social policy, saving, and sound money: budgeting for the New Jerusalem in the Second World War Jose Harris 9. 1945-1951: years of recovery or a stage in economic decline? Bernard Alford 10. The end of empire and the golden age Charles H. Feinstein 11. Macmillan's audit of empire, 1957 Tony Hopkins 12. Apocalypse when? British politicians and British 'decline' in the twentieth century David Cannadine 13. Measuring economic decline Peter Temin Publications by Barry Supple Index.