Far from radically rebalancing the structure of the UK economy, Theresa May’s industrial strategy seems destined to entrench the UK’s deindustrialisation It is now over a decade since the run on Northern Rock augured the onset of a financial crisis whose reverberations are still being felt in the British political system. The response to the crisis, not least the austerity … Continue reading →
2 October 2018 by Richard Woodward & James Silverwood
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The discourse may have changed, but the problems remain There was once a whole academic cottage industry devoted to British relative decline. Indeed, there was a sufficiently large literature to allow me to teach a course on the general issue of decline. Andrew Gamble published four editions of a book entitled Britain in Decline. However, the term has now largely … Continue reading →
16 October 2014 by Wyn Grant
Categories: British growth crisis, Economics, Employment, Housing, SPERI Comment
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The Schizophrenia of UK (De) industrialisation Policy
Far from radically rebalancing the structure of the UK economy, Theresa May’s industrial strategy seems destined to entrench the UK’s deindustrialisation It is now over a decade since the run on Northern Rock augured the onset of a financial crisis whose reverberations are still being felt in the British political system. The response to the crisis, not least the austerity … Continue reading →
2 October 2018 by Richard Woodward & James Silverwood
Categories: SPERI Comment | Tags: de-industrialisation, Industrial strategy, James Silverwood, Margaret Thatcher, richard woodward, Theresa May | Leave a comment