`Tomlinson has an excellent ability to summarize complex issues briefly and clearly for which teachers and students will be grateful to him`. 20th Century British History 'As an introduction, or a students' textbook, it would be excellent value, and even the more experienced reader will find its guidance through the past 11 turbulent years most enlightening.' Sidney Pollard, Economic History Review, Volume XLIII, 1990. 'To be welcomed and is likely to be very successful as a economic ext' Business History

• Public Policy and the National Economy; 1900-1914: The World we have Lost; 1914-1925: A World Shattered - and Rebuilt?; 1925-1931: The Old World Restored and Found Wanting; 1931-1939: The Rise of the Managed Economy?; 1939-1945: Planning the War and Plans for Peace; 1941-1958: Reconstructing the World Economy; 1945-1951: Domestic Reconstruction: Building a New Jerusalem; 1951-1973: The Long Boom; 1973-1979: From Crisis to Crisis; 1979-1988: Renaissance or Retrogression?.

`Tomlinson has an excellent ability to summarize complex issues briefly and clearly for which teachers and students will be grateful to him`. 20th Century British History 'As an introduction, or a students' textbook, it would be excellent value, and even the more experienced reader will find its guidance through the past 11 turbulent years most enlightening.' Sidney Pollard, Economic History Review, Volume XLIII, 1990. 'To be welcomed and is likely to be very successful as a economic ext' Business History

• Public Policy and the National Economy; 1900-1914: The World we have Lost; 1914-1925: A World Shattered - and Rebuilt?; 1925-1931: The Old World Restored and Found Wanting; 1931-1939: The Rise of the Managed Economy?; 1939-1945: Planning the War and Plans for Peace; 1941-1958: Reconstructing the World Economy; 1945-1951: Domestic Reconstruction: Building a New Jerusalem; 1951-1973: The Long Boom; 1973-1979: From Crisis to Crisis; 1979-1988: Renaissance or Retrogression?.