The Ideas That Shaped Post-War Britain. Anthony Seldon

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      CONTENTS

	Cover
	Title Page
	Copyright
	Introduction: Ideas and Policy	David Marquand and Anthony Seldon
1	Moralists and Hedonists	David Marquand
2	Politics	Albert Hirschman
3	The Fall of Keynesianism	Robert Skidelsky
4	The Keynesian Consensus	Peter Clarke
5	Industrial Relations	Robert Taylor
6	‘Contract’ and ‘Citizenship’	Jose Harris
7	Social Policy	Chris Pierson
8	Social Democracy	Raymond Plant
9	Culture	Geoff Mulgan
10	The European Question	Jim Bulpitt
11	Ideas are not Enough	Anthony Seldon
12	The Stakeholder Society	Will Hutton
	Contributors
	Notes
	Index
	About the Author
	About the Publisher

INTRODUCTION

      Ideas and Policy

      MORE YEARS have passed since 1945 than from the beginning of the century to that date. The major issues and questions in British history from 1900–45 are now fairly well established and there have been authoritative responses in many areas. In contrast, the historiography of the last fifty years is still in