From Dreams to Disillusionment

Economic and Social Planning in 1960s Britain
2007. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-230-01347-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 301 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries' planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Hara, Glen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables and Charts Acknowledgements Introduction The Planning Fervour of 1959-1964 Macroeconomic Planning Planning the Public Sector Regional Planning Housing Health Care and the NHS Conclusion: Governance, Choice and History Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

DR GLEN O'HARA is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he won the Gladstone and Eubule Thelwall Prizes for History, and University College London. He is also the joint editor, with Helen Parr, of