AN ECONOMIST AMONG MANDARINS. A BIOGRAPHY OF ROBERT HALL.

ISBN: 978-0-521-47155-8
Materia: Historia económica
Autor: Jones, K.
Editorial: Cambridge University Press
Edición: 1994
Páginas: 270
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Reseña:
Robert Hall was the hightly respected and influential Economic Adviser to the government between 1947 and 1961. He came to England from Australia as a Rhodes scholar, became an Oxford don and then a wartime civil servant. Within two years of returning to Oxford after the war, he was recalled to Whitehall. His appointment as Director of the Economic Section, first in the Cabinet Office and then in the Treasury, came at a crucial time in the development of the modern economic state, when...

Índice:
An idyllic Australian childhood; Growing up; The Yyoung Australian in Oxford and London; Oxford don; Wartime civil servant in London and Washington; Postwar plans for a new economic order; A new job; Working with cripss; The KOrean War and rearmament; A change of government in 1951; The revival of monetary policy under the tories; The problem of inflation; International economic cooperation; London, Oxford and Cornwall; Economic statesman.