Ideas and economic crises in Britain from Attlee to Blair (1945-2005)

1. Continuity and change in British economic policymaking -- 2. Crisis, ideas, and path dependence : theoretical framework and postwar Britain's changing political economy -- 3. Clement Attlee's postwar "settlement" (1945-1970) : depression, war, Keynes, Beveridge, and a new consensus -- 4. Relative decline and the unraveling of consensus (1959-1979) : from "having it so good" to the "winter of discontent" -- 5. Margaret Thatcher's triumph (1975-1990) : inflation, Hayek, and the overhaul of the British state -- 6. Thatcherism's flaws and Tony Blair's consolidation (1987-2005) : from the Lawson boom to New Labour's "new Britain" -- 7. Conclusion : made in Britain.