Mr Osborne's Economic Experiment

In his book "Mrs Thatcher's Economic Experiment" William Keegan won acclaim even from critics for the virulence of his attack on the government's monetarist policies of the early 1980s. These, in his opinion, produced an unnecessarily severe recession and much social damage.

His new book, "Mr Osborne's Economic Experiment " is a conscious echo of that earlier work. Keegan believes that, although the circumstances are different, there are parallels in the way that unnecessarily deflationary policies aggravated the recession that was initially brought on by the financial crisis,and have caused needless social hardship.

William Keegan has been the Senior Economics Commentator of The
Observer for many years, having previously worked at the Bank of England and the Financial Times. He is the author of many books, including 'Mrs
Thatcher Economic Experiment', (1984) and 'The Prudence of Mr Gordon
Brown' (2003). This is his second work for Searching Finance, the first being''Saving the world?'' Gordon Brown Reconsidered (2012).

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part i Postwar Austerity
Chapter 1 Attlee and Cripps - A Personal Loan that led to a Premiership
Chapter 2 Grants and Loans to finance War and Recovery
Chapter 3 Years of Shortages and Rationing
Notes: chapters 1-3
Part ii Austerity in the Twenty First Century
Chapter 4 Enter Mr Osborne and Governor Carney
Notes
Chapter 5 Treasury and Bank Policy at Odds
Notes
Chapter 6 The Limits to Monetary Policy
Notes
Chapter 7 Panic Stations
Notes
Chapter 8 How to Delay a Recovery
Notes
Chapter 9 Economies Recover - Eventually
Notes
Part iii Austerity - The Osborne Experiment
Chapter 10 An Obsession with Deficits
Notes
Chapter 11 A Crisis Aggravated by Housing Shortages
Notes
Chapter 12 What About the Workers?
Notes
Chapter 13 The Importance of the Exchange Rate
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Chapter 14 Keynesians versus The Rest
Notes
Chapter 15 Bubbling House Prices
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Chapter 16 Interest Rate Dilemmas
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Conclusion
Notes
Index