Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching interests integrate comparative and international political economy. He received his PhD from the Sheffield University in 2000. Before joining Warwick, he held lectureships at Sheffield and Brunel Universities. He has been research fellow at Sciences-Po, Paris and the University of Oxford. In 2018 he won a prestigious Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. He has published widely on comparative capitalisms, the IMF, the politics of economic ideas, and the political economy of economic patriotism in many leading journals.

Clift's book is an illuminating analysis of the Office for Budget Responsibility. It offers sharp and important insights into the complex statecraft of technocratic economic governance in an age of multiple economic and political crises.

• 1: Embattled Technocratic Governance: The Office for Budget Responsibility from the Crash to COVID 2: UK Fiscal Politics and Macroeconomic Policy Rules Since the 1990s 3: The British Model of Capitalism and the Politics of Growth 4: The OBR and the Politics of Technocratic Fiscal Governance 5: The OBR, Fiscal Forecasting, and the Politics of Economic Method 6: Narrating the Economy DS Constructing the Crash and its Legacy 7: The OBR and the Politics of Forecasting Brexit Effects 8: COVID Changes Everything DS 'Sound' Economic Policy and the Historical Contingency of Economic Knowledge 9: Conclusion DS The OBR and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance in Hard Times Glossary Bibliography Index

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching interests integrate comparative and international political economy. He received his PhD from the Sheffield University in 2000. Before joining Warwick, he held lectureships at Sheffield and Brunel Universities. He has been research fellow at Sciences-Po, Paris and the University of Oxford. In 2018 he won a prestigious Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. He has published widely on comparative capitalisms, the IMF, the politics of economic ideas, and the political economy of economic patriotism in many leading journals.

Clift's book is an illuminating analysis of the Office for Budget Responsibility. It offers sharp and important insights into the complex statecraft of technocratic economic governance in an age of multiple economic and political crises.

• 1: Embattled Technocratic Governance: The Office for Budget Responsibility from the Crash to COVID 2: UK Fiscal Politics and Macroeconomic Policy Rules Since the 1990s 3: The British Model of Capitalism and the Politics of Growth 4: The OBR and the Politics of Technocratic Fiscal Governance 5: The OBR, Fiscal Forecasting, and the Politics of Economic Method 6: Narrating the Economy DS Constructing the Crash and its Legacy 7: The OBR and the Politics of Forecasting Brexit Effects 8: COVID Changes Everything DS 'Sound' Economic Policy and the Historical Contingency of Economic Knowledge 9: Conclusion DS The OBR and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance in Hard Times Glossary Bibliography Index

Ben Clift is Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick. His research and teaching interests integrate comparative and international political economy. He received his PhD from the Sheffield University in 2000. Before joining Warwick, he held lectureships at Sheffield and Brunel Universities. He has been research fellow at Sciences-Po, Paris and the University of Oxford. In 2018 he won a prestigious Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship. He has published widely on comparative capitalisms, the IMF, the politics of economic ideas, and the political economy of economic patriotism in many leading journals.

Clift's book is an illuminating analysis of the Office for Budget Responsibility. It offers sharp and important insights into the complex statecraft of technocratic economic governance in an age of multiple economic and political crises.

• 1: Embattled Technocratic Governance: The Office for Budget Responsibility from the Crash to COVID 2: UK Fiscal Politics and Macroeconomic Policy Rules Since the 1990s 3: The British Model of Capitalism and the Politics of Growth 4: The OBR and the Politics of Technocratic Fiscal Governance 5: The OBR, Fiscal Forecasting, and the Politics of Economic Method 6: Narrating the Economy DS Constructing the Crash and its Legacy 7: The OBR and the Politics of Forecasting Brexit Effects 8: COVID Changes Everything DS 'Sound' Economic Policy and the Historical Contingency of Economic Knowledge 9: Conclusion DS The OBR and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance in Hard Times Glossary Bibliography Index