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2. Everyday Economy and Levelling Up.
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Raikes, Luke
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EMPLOYEE rights ,COMMUNITIES ,SMALL cities ,INDUSTRIAL policy ,ECONOMIC expansion ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
Levelling up and the everyday economy are two crucial concepts for understanding the direction of policy making in the UK, but the relationship between them has not yet been fully explored. Moreover, the UK's industrial and regional policies are woefully underdeveloped. This article suggests how levelling up and the everyday economy concepts could contribute to Labour's emerging industrial and regional policies. It argues that Labour is right to pursue an economic growth agenda, but must make growth work for communities and workers, and the everyday economy can help. The everyday economy can contribute to, and benefit from, local productivity growth, but regions still need companies that export or are at the technological frontier to raise demand, productivity and pay. Labour should work with the government's Levelling Up White Paper, but this was overly focussed on cities and knowledge intensive business services: there is an economic case for including towns and manufacturing too, and they should prioritise connecting places and sectors, building on the diverse strengths which different places can offer, and setting a long‐term direction of travel. Over time, Labour should try to ensure that cities, towns and smaller communities are better connected, better coordinated and more specialised within larger regions. Labour should, therefore, set out an industrial and regional strategy; work up an economic development toolkit; and devolve economic powers to Mayoral Combined Authorities and councils. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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3. Brexit and its economic consequences.
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Chang, Winston W.
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BREXIT Referendum, 2016 ,INTERNATIONAL economic relations ,ECONOMIC development ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,ECONOMIC trends - Abstract
Abstract: As the formal process of Brexit has already started, there is much uncertainty about Brexit's impacts on Britain's social, political and economic future. This paper examines the economic impact. After briefly discussing some significant EU treaties that serve as the background materials, it presents the key arguments advocated by the leave and remain camps. The economic impact depends critically on the negotiation outcomes. Aside from the debate on the divorce costs, there are numerous issues that must be negotiated, such as immigration, trade in goods, services, agriculture, fisheries and financial regulations. We discuss various scenarios of possible new trade regimes, resulting in different impacts on the UK economy. With each side having its bargaining chips to play, the trade‐offs between “give and take” in the negotiation game are analysed. Considering various strategic options, this paper urges rationality and cooperation, especially weighing both sides’ entwined economic interests, in addition to their mutual security, defence, environmental and world concerns. The potential gains and losses in the event where the UK contemplates new trade arrangements with the non‐EU countries are analysed in the Appendix. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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4. Tax without Design: Recent Developments in UK Tax Policy.
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Johnson, Paul
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ECONOMIC development ,FISCAL policy ,CORPORATE taxes ,INCOME tax ,ECONOMIC policy - Abstract
This paper considers the development of tax policy in the UK over the last decade or so and assesses policy change against a low bar-consistency and coherence. While this government has followed some consistent policies-notably, in some aspects of corporation tax and in increasing the income tax personal allowance-there are few signs of a wider coherent strategy. The same has been true of other recent governments. Many aspects of the system have become more complex. There have been numerous policy reversals. And few of those aspects of the system in most need of reform have been tackled. The need for reform, and a clear strategy for reform, remain as pressing as ever. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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5. Accounting for the UK Productivity Puzzle: A Decomposition and Predictions.
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Goodridge, Peter, Haskel, Jonathan, and Wallis, Gavin
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INDUSTRIAL productivity ,ECONOMIC development ,LABOR supply ,PREDICTION models ,ECONOMICS - Abstract
This paper revisits the UK productivity puzzle using new data on outputs and inputs and clarifying the role of output mismeasurement, input growth and industry effects. Our data indicate an implied labour productivity gap of 13 percentage points in 2011 relative to the productivity level on pre‐recession trends. We find that: (a) the labour productivity puzzle is a TFP puzzle, since it is not explained by the contributions of labour or capital services; (b) the reallocation of labour between industries deepens rather than explains the puzzle (i.e. there has been a reallocation of hours away from low‐productivity industries and toward high productivity industries); (c) capitalization of R&D does not explain the productivity puzzle; (d) assuming increased scrapping rates since the recession, a 25% (50%) increase in depreciation rates post‐2009 can potentially explain 15% (31%) of the productivity puzzle; (e) industry data show that 35% of the TFP puzzle can be explained by weak TFP growth in the oil & gas and finance sectors; and (f) cyclical effects via factor utilization could potentially explain 17% of the productivity puzzle. Continued weakness in finance would suggest a future lowering of TFP growth to around 0.8% p.a. from a baseline of 0.9% p.a. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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6. Changes in the relationship between short‐term interest rate, inflation and growth: evidence from the UK, 1820–2014.
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Bataa, Erdenebat, Vivian, Andrew, and Wohar, Mark
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INTEREST rates ,MONETARY policy ,ANALYSIS of variance ,DYNAMICAL systems ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
This paper examines the dynamic relationship between interest rates, inflation and economic growth using a long dataset for the UK. The approach adopted enables us to identify structural breaks in the dynamic system (vector autoregression (VAR)). We find interest rates respond much more strongly to growth and inflation over recent decades, and forecast error variance decomposition analysis indicates there is increasing interconnectedness between the variables in recent years. Economic policymakers need to carefully monitor the linkages between these variables and be prepared to adjust their monetary policy tools when faced with structural changes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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7. Satisfaction with the Political Domain of Local Government in a Contemporary British City.
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Broadstock, David C. and Collins, Alan
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SATISFACTION ,LOCAL government ,ECONOMIC development ,ECONOMIC policy ,INTERVIEWING - Abstract
This paper explores satisfaction with the political domain of local government performance, using survey data from a contemporary British city as the empirical context. It employs a factor-augmented ordered logit analysis of data emerging from a representative city-wide series of over 1,000 household interviews. Affective reactions to local economic performance and policy effectiveness are constructed in the spirit of the approach used in earlier work by social scientists. The key significant influences that raise or depress satisfaction at this geographical level are presented. Affective reactions to past policy and the economy are both shown to be statistically significant, but with reactions to the economy being negative while those for other policy reactions seemingly positive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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8. Growth in a time of austerity: evidence from the UK.
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Amann, Juergen and Middleditch, Paul
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AUSTERITY ,ECONOMIC development ,PUBLIC debts ,FINANCIAL crises ,EUROZONE - Abstract
This paper uses an empirical approach to test the specific causal relationship between debt and growth in the UK, in the context of the debate surrounding the use of a policy known as austerity measures. This time series perspective makes use of more recent Granger causality and cointegration tests that allow for non-stationarity in macroeconomic time series data in the presence of structural breaks. Controlling for exogenous shocks associated with the period around the financial crisis, we find no evidence of a causal relationship between economic growth and public debt for the UK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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9. A commentary on the City Deals in the UK.
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Jones, Peter, Wynn, Martin, Hillier, David, and Comfort, Daphne
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URBAN planning ,DECISION making ,ECONOMIC development ,POLITICIANS ,SUSTAINABLE development - Abstract
Within the UK, City Deals, essentially bespoke packages of funding and decision-making negotiated between national government and local authorities, are increasingly taking centre stage in promoting economic growth. Each City Deal is seen to reflect the needs of individual cities and their surrounding regions, and each has its own distinctive funding and development agenda. Although the City Deal model has been broadly welcomed by national and local political leaders, concerns have been more widely expressed about its operation and effectiveness. This paper outlines the development and characteristics of the City Deals programme and offers a reflective commentary on a number of issues surrounding the programme, namely, accountability and evaluation, the relationship between the local and national states, the role of planning, and sustainable development. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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10. Trademarks and British dominance in consumer goods, 1876-1914.
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Silva Lopes, Teresa and Guimaraes, Paulo
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TRADEMARK application & registration ,CONSUMER goods ,TRADEMARKS ,ECONOMIC competition ,ECONOMIC development ,LIBERALISM ,ECONOMIC conditions in Great Britain ,HISTORY - Abstract
Late Victorian Britain was very important in the development of British dominance in light consumer goods industries, such as fermented liquors and spirits; detergents and perfumery; bicycles and other carriages; paper, stationery, and bookbinding; and games of all kinds and sports goods. Firms developed technology-based innovations and marketing-based innovations, creating abnormal peaks of trademark registrations in certain industries. This article investigates those peaks and shows that factors usually pointed out as explaining British economic decline in heavy industries did not impact on the development of light consumer goods industries, and on the contrary encouraged their fast growth during this period. Trademark registrations are shown to provide new insights into the debate on British relative decline, when combined with other industry and firm-level data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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11. Building Everyday Wealth for Britain's Communities: A Labour Alternative to Levelling Up?
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Longlands, Sarah
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COMMUNITIES ,ECONOMIC change ,ECONOMIC policy ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
Community wealth building provides an important counterpoint to the orthodoxy of place based economic policy in the UK. It puts forward a framework for economic change which shows that local areas can intervene effectively to build wealth from within so that they are less reliant upon extractive forms of economic development. Instead, wealth building within a community is about recognising the wealth that already exists in an area and intervening to encourage that wealth to flow more readily, particularly from capital to labour. This article explores the background to the development of community wealth building in the UK and its connection with the debate on the everyday economy. It finds that there is a close alignment between the objectives of building wealth and the everyday economy, particularly in areas which not only feel 'left behind', but arguably, who have been kept behind by a policy regime which has actively dismantled their sense of place, agency and identity, and in turn, devalued the role and purpose of the businesses and economy that already exists, in favour of elusive 'growth' and/or 'pioneer' sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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12. Investment and Growth: The Impact of Britain's Post-War Trunk Roads Programme.
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Starkie, David
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ECONOMIC conditions in Great Britain ,ECONOMIC development ,INVESTMENTS ,EXPRESS highways ,AUTOMOTIVE transportation - Abstract
In Great Britain, a basic inter-urban network of motorways was completed in a very short period between the end of 1959 and 1972. We calculate that this substantial investment had the potential to reduce most inter-urban journey times by about one third. In spite of this, a recent OECD study suggested that the investment had no discernible positive impact on the trend rate of economic growth. We attribute this outcome to a serious misalignment of the early investments with the then predominant flows of industrial and commercial traffics and a significant, and probably endogenous, increase in real wages in a road transport industry in which labour productivity was slow to improve. We conclude with a number of policy recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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13. One more left‐wing heave?
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Curtice, John
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LIBERALISM ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
Abstract: The Labour party cannot ignore its newly acquired liberal voters if it is to win the next election [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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14. After Brexit: Rethinking the structure of the UK economy and its branding strategies.
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Ardley, Barry
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BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 ,ECONOMIC development ,CONSUMER attitudes ,MONEY - Abstract
Brexit is currently making the economic climate uncertain. It will have an impact on the economic health of the UK economy and its products may suffer as consequence. It presents conditions for engendering both the positive and negative features of a falling currency. Associated with Brexit is the possibility of negative customer brand perceptions, a result of the UK country of origin effect. This raises the issue of considering alternative strategic routes to growth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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15. THE ‘PRODUCTIVITY PUZZLE’ AND THE COST OF CAPITAL.
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Sargent, J. R.
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LABOR productivity ,CAPITAL costs ,ECONOMIC development ,BRITISH economic policy ,HISTORICAL analysis - Abstract
The article discusses the scenario in Great Britain where downfall in labour productivity hampered economic development, which it depicts has happened due to developments in the cost of capital. Topics discussed include implications of the rising cost of capital, historical analysis of the matter with regard to the economy of Great Britain and policy implications.
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- 2018
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16. Clark's Malthus delusion: response to ‘Farming in England 1200–1800’.
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Broadberry, Stephen, Campbell, Bruce M. S., Klein, Alexander, Overton, Mark, and van Leeuwen, Bas
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ECONOMIC development ,AGRICULTURAL development ,AGRICULTURAL economics ,LAND use ,HISTORY ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
Abstract: Clark's claims about the scale of English agricultural output from the 1200s to the 1860s flout historical and geographical reality. His income‐based estimates start with the daily real wages of adult males and assume that days worked per year were constant. Those advanced in
British economic growth make no such assumption and instead are built up from the output side. They correlate better with population trends and are consistent with an economy slowly growing and becoming richer. Clark's denial that such growth occurred, his assertion that substantially more land must have been under arable cultivation, his belief that conditions of full employment invariably prevailed in the countryside at harvest time, his concern that the wage bill would have exceeded the value of output inBritish economic growth , his refusal to consider the possibility that the working year was of variable length, and his assertion that output per acre must have been equalized across arable and pasture are all shown to be figments of his ‘Malthus delusion’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]- Published
- 2018
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17. Brexit and UK International Development Policy.
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Lightfoot, Simon, Mawdsley, Emma, and Szent‐Iványi, Balázs
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BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 ,INTERNATIONAL economic assistance ,CLIMATE change ,INTERNATIONAL relations ,ECONOMIC development ,GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
In this article we explore the implications of Brexit for the UK and the EU's development policies and strategic directions, focusing on the former. While it is likely that the operational process of disentangling the UK from the various development institutions of the EU will be relatively straightforward, the choices that lie ahead about whether and how to cooperate thereafter are more complex. Aid and development policy touches on a wide range of interests-security, trade, climate change, migration, gender rights, and so on. We argue that Brexit will accelerate existing trends within UK development policy, notably towards the growing priority of private sector-led economic growth strategies and blended finance tools. There are strong signals that UK aid will be cut, as successive secretaries of state appear unable to persuade a substantial section of the public and media that UK aid and development policy serves UK interests in a variety of ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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18. The Bifurcation of Politics: Two Englands.
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Jennings, Will and Stoker, Gerry
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POLITICAL participation ,SOCIAL conditions in England ,GLOBALIZATION ,ECONOMIC development ,ELECTIONS ,TWENTY-first century - Abstract
A dynamic of global economic development means that many countries are experiencing uneven development and their citizens are increasingly split between those who can access high-skill jobs and those who cannot. As a result some citizens are living in cosmopolitan areas of growth and others in backwater areas of decline. There are emerging out of these processes two versions of England. In cosmopolitan areas we find an England that is global in outlook, liberal and more plural in its sense of identity. In provincial backwaters we find an England that is inward-looking, relatively illiberal, negative about the EU and immigration, nostalgic and more English in its identity. This bifurcation of England is already having political effects, reflected in the outcome of the 2015 general election. It will further reconfigure politics over the next two decades, creating diverse political citizens and a complex array of challenges and dilemmas for governments, political parties, campaigners and political organisers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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19. Review of periodical literature published in 2014.
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Costen, Michael, Slavin, Philip, Hailwood, Mark, Walsh, Patrick, Wilkinson, Amanda, and Cirenza, Peter
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ECONOMIC history ,HISTORY of money ,ECONOMIC development ,URBAN life - Abstract
A review of several articles for the period 400-1100 AD is presented including one by Naismith on currency, link social and economic developments among the English, one by Lane on urban life at Wroxeter into the 6th and 7th centuries, and one by Lavelle on the policy of King Eadwig.
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- 2016
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20. Resurrected right, disorientated left: Pre-crisis economics and post-crisis emotions.
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Berry, Craig
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ECONOMIC conditions in Great Britain, 1997- ,BRITISH economic policy, 2010- ,ECONOMIC development ,ECONOMIC recovery - Abstract
The Conservative party's ability to embrace popular concerns around value, place and equality has enabled it to resurrect the old pre-crisis growth model, says Craig Berry, in a move which none of the post-crisis narratives offered by the Labour party has yet been able to disrupt or overturn. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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21. UK medium-term prospects: steady, but unspectacular.
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LABOR supply ,GROSS domestic product ,INTERNAL migration ,ECONOMIC development ,PRICE inflation ,FINANCIAL crises - Abstract
Rapid expansion of the labour supply and robust business investment means that potential output is likely to have grown strongly last year. Therefore, based upon the latest data for GDP, we estimate that the output gap only narrowed very slightly in 2014, ending the year at 4% of potential output., The prospects for potential output growth are favourable, with the labour supply set to be boosted by sustained strength in inward migration and the staged increase in the State Pension Age, and robust growth in business investment continuing to deepen the capital stock., This will provide the conditions for relatively strong growth and low inflation over the medium term, with GDP growth expected to average 2.6% a year from 2015-19. This is some way below the average of the decade prior to the financial crisis, but it would represent a clear step up on the average growth rate achieved between 2007-14., Our estimate of the output gap is much larger than that of the OBR. This suggests that the UK's structural deficit is smaller and that the degree to which fiscal policy needs to be tightened may not be as great as the OBR estimates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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22. Constitutional Change in England and the Diffusion of Regulatory Initiative, 1660-1714.
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Pettigrew, William A.
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BRITISH politics & government, 1660-1714 ,GOVERNMENT regulation ,ECONOMIC development ,TRADE regulation ,BRITISH economic policy ,HISTORY ,ECONOMIC history - Abstract
This article places a new account of the English state's changing framework for economic regulation alongside what economic historians have demonstrated about the phasing and arenas of economic growth between 1660 and 1714. It places studies of parliamentary legislation into a broader examination of the state's means of regulation (which included the privy council and parliament) and sets this account of regulatory actions against a new account of the changing ways in which petitions approached the state as a regulatory body and how the state responded to those approaches. It also offers a more textured account of the changing styles of economic regulation in this period and of the important (though neglected) role played by commercial interests groups. It argues that the executive colluded with these interests during the Restoration period to use the state to increase the scale of England's overseas trade. With the rising importance of parliament after 1689 regulatory initiative diffused to either local interests which focused on infrastructure projects or trading interests bent on defeating regulating statutes in ways that would lead to deregulation as other constitutional means of regulation (especially the privy council) retreated from view. The state continued to regulate to protect manufacturing (which also provided customs revenue) and to support the monopoly of the East India Company (which provided money and materiel for the wars against Louis XIV). As such the article offers a broader and more agile means to understand the economic connotations of constitutional change in this critical period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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23. The development of stage coaching and the impact of turnpike roads, 1653-1840.
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Gerhold, Dorian
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TOLL roads ,STAGECOACHES ,NEWSPAPER advertising ,MODERNIZATION (Social science) ,ECONOMIC development ,ROADS ,TRANSPORTATION ,HISTORY of London, England ,HISTORY - Abstract
This article uses newspaper advertisements to chart the changes in speeds and fares of stage coaches, identifying the main periods of increasing speeds among London coaches as the 1760s-80s and 1810s-20s, separated by a period when speeds declined. It then measures productivity growth. Fares of London coaches in 1835-6 were about 27 per cent of what they would have been but for improvements in horses, vehicles, and roads from 1750, and the two main periods of productivity growth correspond to those of rising speeds. Speeds and productivity of regional coaches increased more smoothly. The rising productivity firmly identifies road transport as one of the modernizing sectors of the economy. New figures are put forward for the growing number of London and regional coaches, indicating rapid growth in passenger miles. While turnpike trusts had little impact before the 1750s, their increasing effectiveness, together with the use of steel springs and improved horses, was crucial to the rising productivity of the 1760s-80s, and even more so to that of the 1810s-20s. The cross roads were apparently poorer than London roads in the late eighteenth century, but thereafter the gap narrowed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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24. The Role of Higher Education within Broader Skills Policies, a Comparison of Emerging Scottish and English Approaches.
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Keep, Ewart
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HIGHER education & state ,JOB skills ,ECONOMIC development ,EDUCATION policy ,EDUCATION ,UNIVERSITIES & colleges ,BRITISH economic policy, 2010- ,HIGHER education - Abstract
This article explores the important role played by higher education in broader skills and economic development policies in England and Scotland. It places the often divergent policy experiments and structural developments in these two countries' higher education systems within an international policy context and explains why England and Scotland are often tackling common problems and challenges in different ways. Scotland's retention of a centralised funding system for higher education, its enthusiasm for a closer integration of higher education with other forms of skills creation and its emphasis on skills utilisation are all leading to greater divergence from England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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25. Competing Visions of Community: Empowerment and Abandonment in the Governance of Coalfield Regeneration.
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Doering, Heike
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COMMUNITY involvement ,COMMUNITY development ,URBAN renewal ,COALFIELDS ,MINES & mineral resources ,ECONOMIC development ,SOCIAL participation - Abstract
This article engages with recent debates which assert that community participation and empowerment are place-contingent. The particular nature of localities has regularly been taken to account for success or failure in processes of participation and regeneration. In contrast, this article exposes the failings based in the nature of the process of regeneration in the complex intersection of national agendas of community participation, regional objectives of economic growth and local aspirations of social cohesion and improved amenities. These agendas meet in the seemingly mutual pursuit of the 'active community'. They become manifest in the micro-politics of negotiating and enacting different constructions of community by the different actors 'empowered' in the regeneration process: regional development agencies, local government and local civil society. The article is based on ethnographic research in the Kent coalfield. The coalfields as distinct places have commanded a lasting place in the academic and policy literature: romanticized as the epitome of 'communityness' but demonized as the site of problem groups. This otherness has outlasted the industry the communities were built on. The analysis here shows that the social organization of regeneration in an arguably 'different' place is less driven by local specificities than by a failure to make visible conflicting constructions of community; therefore both the pathologizing of disadvantaged social groups and calls for more 'community' in policy delivery rather than policy reform are called into question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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26. Brexit and Beyond: The BJM and Unforeseen Events.
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Wood, Geoffrey and Budhwar, Pawan
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BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 ,ECONOMIC development - Abstract
An introduction to the periodical is presented providing articles related to challenges to firms and economy development of Great Britain following the Brexit decision.
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- 2016
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27. Reassurance of sorts.
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BREXIT Referendum, 2016 ,ECONOMIC development ,RESEARCH grants ,AGRICULTURAL policy - Published
- 2016
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