It's the economy, stupid : economics for voters / Vicky Pryce, Andy Ross & Peter Urwin.
By: Pryce, Vicky [author.]
.Contributor(s): Ross, Andy (Writer on economics) [author.] | Urwin, Peter [author.].Publisher: London : Biteback Publishing, 2015Description: viii, 388 pages.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849547451.Subject(s): Economics -- Political aspects | Economic policy -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Economic conditions -- 21st century | Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 330 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 330 PRY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 014040 |
Cover; Title Page; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE: The Great Recession: Kicking the Economy When It's Down; CHAPTER 1: The Importance of Being Economists; CHAPTER 2: Balancing the Books or Reckless Austerity?; CHAPTER 3: There's No Business Like Grow Business; CHAPTER 4: Getting Out of the Hole: Why Productivity Matters; PART TWO: The Economics of the Big Issues; CHAPTER 5: We're All in It Together -- Some of Us Up to Our Necks; CHAPTER 6: The Three Ds: Diversity, Discrimination and Disadvantage; CHAPTER 7: Here's to Our Health; CHAPTER 8: Bloody Foreigners: They Come Over Here, Creating Jobs and Paying TaxesCHAPTER 9: What Has Europe Ever Done for Us?; CHAPTER 10: Never Got a Lift Out of Lear Jets; CHAPTER 11: Saving the Earth or Simply on Another Planet?; CHAPTER 12: Should You Trust the State?; CHAPTER 13: And So to the Ballot Box; Index; Copyright; Advertisement.
"While good economic news can send popularity sky-rocketing, bad performance can blight a party's election chances for years. But, with policies often working with time lags, it's rarely clear who is reponsible for what - especially when their stances on the biggest issues of the day - immigration, the EU, the NHS - are clouded in rhetoric rather than grounded in hard economic fact. This guide explodes some of the most entrenched myths of British political debate."--Back cover.