Jim Tomlinson is Head of the Department of Government at Brunel University.
Acknowledgements
vii
List of tables
viii
List of abbreviations
ix
The importance of decline
1
(8)
Decline and declinism
1
(5)
Plan of the book
6
(3)
Inventing decline
9
(21)
Government and economic performance
10
(2)
Calculating decline
12
(4)
Industrial production
16
(1)
Productivity
17
(2)
Britain and world trade
19
(2)
The culture of decline
21
(9)
Decline and the Left
30
(18)
Labour and the economy to the mid-1950s
30
(3)
Labour and declinism
33
(4)
The Marxist Left and decline
37
(7)
Conclusions
44
(4)
Decline and the Right
48
(17)
Origins of declinism
48
(2)
The Conservative road to declinism
50
(5)
Culprits for decline: trade unions
55
(3)
The ideologues of decline: Barnett and Wiener
58
(7)
Decline as history, history as decline
65
(18)
The growth debate
66
(1)
The academic issues
67
(1)
Economic history
68
(2)
Growth and declinism
70
(2)
The underpinnings of declinism
72
(2)
The career of declinism
74
(2)
Declinism as history
76
(3)
Historical declinism as politics
79
(4)
Decline in the 1970s and 1980s
83
(17)
Decline in the 1970s
84
(1)
Causes of panic
85
(3)
The culture of decline and the panic of the 1970s
88
(2)
An unjustified panic?
90
(4)
The impact on politics
94
(2)
Conclusions
96
(4)
The present and future of decline
100
(19)
Political responsibility
100
(1)
Measuring decline
101
(4)
Globalisation
105
(2)
Competitiveness
107
(2)
`Education, education, education'
109
(5)
Conclusions
114
(5)
Index
119
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