Rebalancing the British Economy

Rebalancing the British Economy

by PeterMandelson (Author), TristramHunt (Author), David G . Green (Author), JoJohnson (Author)

Synopsis

Part 1 is devoted to an analysis of what a balanced role for financial services might be and how to achieve it, and includes contributions from Tony Greenham, Dr David Green, Wolfgang Neumann, Chris Cummings and Stuart Fraser. Part 2 looks at the role and size of the state and asks whether there is a growth-maximising level of public spending. Contributors include Roger Bootle, Professor Karel Williams, Jonathan Portes and Chris Giles. Part 3 looks at the greater role for Britain's manufacturing sector in a rebalanced economy and includes contributions from Tristram Hunt, Lord Mandelson, Professor David Bailey, Terry Scuoler and Dr Elizabeth Garnsey. Part 4 examines the extent to which export-led growth can rebalance the current account. Contributors include Jo Johnson, Sir Alan Rudge, Will Butler-Adams and David Tinsley. Part 5 discusses an entirely different sort of rebalancing, that of the nation's boardrooms, and includes contributions from Helena Morrissey, Julia Hobsbawm and Jan Hall

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 124
Publisher: Civitas
Published: 11 Mar 2013

ISBN 10: 1906837473
ISBN 13: 9781906837471

Author Bio
Tristram Hunt is Member of Parliament (Labour Party) for Stoke-on-Trent Central and Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Member of the Select Committee on Political and Constitutional Reform and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Energy Intensive Industries. He is the author of The English Civil War: At First Hand (2002), Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (2004), and the award-winning biography, The Frock-coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels (2009). Previously, he was Special Adviser to Science Minister Lord Sainsbury (1997-2000), Associate Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Since entering Parliament, Tristram Hunt has focused on the regeneration needs of Stoke-on-Trent; the ceramics industry and energy intensive sector; educational excellence; constitutional reform; and the Labour Party policy review. He is a trustee of the History of Parliament Trust and fellow of the Royal Historical Society.