Martin Chick, Professor of Economic History, University of Edinburgh

Martin Chick is Professor of Economic History at the University of Edinburgh. His previous books include a study of the economic planning of the Attlee governments, 1945-1951, and an analysis of the development of energy policies in the UK, France, and the United States since 1945. His latest project concerns the economic use of the sea and the sea bed, and examines such issues as whaling, fisheries, the law of the sea, and the dumping of hazardous waste at sea.

"This long-awaited addition to the Oxford University Press's Economic and Social History of Britain series provides a powerful and intriguing account of British economic policy and performance since 1951. [...] This is in part a straightforward textbook, offering a comprehensive, thematic account with summaries of a wide variety of relevant literature, and a formidable array of statistics [...]. But it is more than a textbook, drawing on a wide range of economic theory as well as substantial research in the National Archives to provide new arguments on often familiar topics." -- Jim Tomlinson, Economic History Association

"...there is loads of interest in every chapter even for someone who has read a lot of the economic and political history of this period." -- Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy, University of Cambridge, The Enlightened Economist

"... this book has many strengths. It provides a non-technical presentation of important ideas in economics and is accessible to readers with a limited knowledge of the subject. It is written in the style of a historian who presents lots of factual details based on meticulous research. It benefits from and excellent command of secondary sources including very recent publications. It covers a lot of ground very well." -- Nicholas Crafts, University of Sussex, Economic Affairs