José Tomás Labarca is an Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His work has appeared in Socio-Economic Review and The Political Quarterly, among other outlets.

'Fragmented Policy Change provides a deeply researched and theoretically sophisticated analysis of fiscal policy-making in post-war Britain. By exploring how Treasury officials constructed and reframed the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement during the 1960s and 1970s, José Tomás Labarca reveals the politics that lies beneath economic indicators and forces us to rethink established narratives about Keynesianism and neoliberalism.' Peter Sloman, Professor of British Politics, University of Cambridge

• 1. The Multidimensional Politics of Economic Policy; Part I. Feeding the Beast: The Politics of Symbolic Fiscal Practices: 2. The drive for a civilian developmental state; 3. Demand management taken for granted; 4. A uniquely British kind of economic credibility; Part II. The Politics of Shrinking Policy Space: 5. Trapped between monetary growth and crowding out: the 1970s economic policy trilemma; 6. Mid-1970s economic policy as cumulative polyvalent performances; 7. Conclusion.

José Tomás Labarca is an Isaac Newton Trust Academic Career Development Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. His work has appeared in Socio-Economic Review and The Political Quarterly, among other outlets.

'Fragmented Policy Change provides a deeply researched and theoretically sophisticated analysis of fiscal policy-making in post-war Britain. By exploring how Treasury officials constructed and reframed the Public Sector Borrowing Requirement during the 1960s and 1970s, José Tomás Labarca reveals the politics that lies beneath economic indicators and forces us to rethink established narratives about Keynesianism and neoliberalism.' Peter Sloman, Professor of British Politics, University of Cambridge

• 1. The Multidimensional Politics of Economic Policy; Part I. Feeding the Beast: The Politics of Symbolic Fiscal Practices: 2. The drive for a civilian developmental state; 3. Demand management taken for granted; 4. A uniquely British kind of economic credibility; Part II. The Politics of Shrinking Policy Space: 5. Trapped between monetary growth and crowding out: the 1970s economic policy trilemma; 6. Mid-1970s economic policy as cumulative polyvalent performances; 7. Conclusion.