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| Author: | O'Hara, G. |
| Title: | What the electorate can be expected to swallow: Nationalisation, transnationalism and the shifting boundaries of the state in post-war Britain |
| Journal: | Business history
2009 : JUL, VOL. 51:4 p. 501-528 |
| Index terms: | investment United Kingdom political parties politics public sector |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper shows that there were three key elements to the changing policy mix as regards state economic intervention and ownership in post-war Britain. These have been relatively neglected by economic historians in favour of questions concerning objective performance. They were: the uncertainty, confusion and competition of the two main political parties as to what the nationalised sector was for; attempts to escape an unpopular and bureaucratic policy model; and recommendations and techniques copied from other countries. It is posited that these three analytical categories offer an explanation for the shifting boundaries of the state in post-war Britain. |
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