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Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have increasingly identified Labour's economic policies with what the US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen terms 'modern supply-side economics'. What are the precedents and possibilities for a 'modern supply-side' approach? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers comments on the pamphlet "The Everyday Economy" by Rachel Reeves on Great Britain's political economy. It is a contribution to the debate on how Labour party can build on the success of its 2017 manifesto; problems of economy of wealth extraction rather than wealth creation; and analysis of social democratic consensus of the postwar year underpinned by neo-classical economics and neoliberalism.

The article discusses the earlier career of Clement Attlee as a soldier which is said to have shaped his thinking about welfare and the state. Topics covered include the analysis of Rachel Reeves and Martin McIvor about the social work of Attlee, the reasons why Attlee fitted into the Army, and the rise of the Blue Labour movement.