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SUMMARY:The political economy of inflation in the 1970s - Professor Jim To
 mlinson\, University of Glasgow
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:\nThis paper derives from a broader concern with how\, in the 
 post-war period\, economic ‘problems’ in Britain have been constructed
 \, how these constructions have been disseminated\, and with what effects.
   The 1970s inflation is especially interesting in this light given the ce
 ntral role the issue played in the economic and political crises of these 
 years.  The paper examines both the attempts of the Labour government to c
 onstruct an effective anti-inflation policy\, and the Conservative ambitio
 n to use inflation as a key part of its critique of ‘consensus’ policy
 . Especial attention is paid to the popular understandings of inflation at
  this time\, and how they inter-acted with elite economic policy discourse
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LOCATION:Lucia Windsor Room\, Newnham College
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