The Chancellors - Howard Davies

The Chancellors

Steering the British Economy in Crisis Times

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Buch | Hardcover
200 Seiten
2022
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-4953-5 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
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When the Treasury lost control of interest rates to the Bank of England in 1997, its status looked under threat. However, it quickly reasserted its power by dominating policymaking across Whitehall and diminishing other ministries in the process. It also successfully fought off attempts by Prime Ministers, from Blair to Johnson, to cut it down to size.

In this fascinating insider account, based on in-depth interviews with the Chancellors and key senior officials, Howard Davies shows how the past twenty-five years have nonetheless been a roller-coaster ride for the Treasury. Heavily criticized for its response to the global financial crisis, and for the rigours of the austerity programme, it also ran into political controversy through its role in the Scottish referendum and the Brexit debate. The Treasury’s dire predictions of the impact of Brexit have not been borne out. Redemption of a kind, though a costly one, came from its muscular response to the COVID crisis.

Anyone with an interest in economic policymaking, in the UK and elsewhere, will find this a valuable and entertaining account.

Howard Davies is Chairman of the NatWest Group and a Professor at Sciences Po, Paris.

Foreword

1. Economic Performance

2. Macroeconomic Policy

3. Public Expenditure

4.  Tax Policy

5. Scotland: Saving the Union

6. Europe: the ins and outs

7. Financial Regulation and the City of London

8. Climate change: the road to Net Zero

9. The Treasury’s changing shape

10. Leadership

11. Trouble ahead

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 145 x 218 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10 1-5095-4953-6 / 1509549536
ISBN-13 978-1-5095-4953-5 / 9781509549535
Zustand Neuware
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