Explains the UK economy as a macroeconomy and as a financial system, as well as examining spending, taxing and borrowing and external transactions within the economy and the labour market, and welfare and industrial policy within the UK economy.

Fully revised, updated and with a new user-friendly format, the fourth edition of this popular book continues to provide an excellent introduction to the UK economy. Once again, Peter Curwen and his team of experts apply economic analysis to the UK economy using their extensive database and the result is a clear and incisive guide for economics and business students.

The theme of British economic decline is inescapable in contemporary debates about Britain's economic performance and sense of national identity. Understanding Decline is a serious contribution to an important argument, approached in a way that is accessible not only to the specialist academic market but to students of economics, history and politics. Barry Supple, to whom the volume is dedicated, when Professor of Economic History at Cambridge was concerned with various aspects of this historical problem. Indeed, his 1993 Presidential Address to the Economic History Society, 'Fear of failing', already a classic, is reprinted here as a highly effective keynote essay. Other essays pick up this theme in diverse but essentially unified ways, seeking to assess British economic performance in different ways over the past two centuries. They include case-studies through which the reality of decline can be explored, while differing perceptions of decline are examined in a number of essays dealing with ideas and policy issues.

In Brexit Britain, talk of ‘the economy’ dominates; however, we know surprisingly little about how people understand this term. In the aftermath of the 2008 crash and decades of neoliberalism, how are understandings of ‘the economy’ changing, and is it the case that Remain supporters care more about ‘the economy’ than Leave supporters? This timely and insightful book argues that people with similar experiences of the economy share an understanding of the term, regardless of whether they supported Leave or Remain. Through extensive ethnographic research in a city on the South coast of England, Anna Killick explores what people from a range of backgrounds understand about key aspects of ‘the economy’, including employment, austerity, trade and the economic effects of migration.

An examination of the main historical trends of the UK economy and the changes of the 1980s and a look at how the economy will develop into the 1990s. The book is aimed at economics and business students.