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The Politics of Decline: Understanding Postwar Britain
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The key aim of this new book is to show how economic decline has always been a highly politicised concept, forming a central part of post-war political argument. In doing so, Tomlinson reveals how the term has been used in such ways as to advance particular political causes.

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The Politics of Decline

First published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited

Published 2014 by Routledge

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I am grateful for comments on various aspects of the arguments of this book to the late Alec Caimcross, David Edgerton, Martin Francis, Deborah Mabbett, Nick Tiratsoo, Mike Kenny and Richard English. I have also received valuable comments from seminar participants at Brunei University, the Institute of Historical Research, the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth, and the Economic History Society conference at Leeds University, April 1998. An earlier version of appeared in Economic History Review 49 (1996). Thanks also to Isobel and Anders for help on the IT front.

The publishers wish to thank the following for permission to reproduce material: , 6.2 and 6.3 from Economic Outlook 47 (Tables R11, R15 and R14 respectively), Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1990.

We have been unable to trace the copyright holders of material used in and would be grateful for any information that will enable us to do so.

AACP	Anglo-American Council on Productivity
BH	Business History
BPC	British Productivity Council
CPA	Conservative Party Archives
CPGB	Communist Party of Great Britain
ECOSOC	Economic and Social Council (of the UN)
EcHR	Economic History Review
EEC	European Economic Community
EJ	Economic Journal
EPA	European Productivity Agency
ERM	Exchange Rate Mechanism
EU	European Union
FBI	Federation of British Industry
GDP	Gross Domestic Product
GNP	Gross National Product
HDI	Human Development Index
ICI	Imperial Chemical Industries
IEA	Institute of Economic Affairs
IMF	International Monetary Fund
JRSS	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
LDC	less developed countries
LP	Labour Party
LPA	Labour Party Archives
LPACR	Labour Party Annual Conference Report
MEW	measurable economic welfare
MNCs	multinational corporations
NEDC	National Economic Development Council
NI	national income
NLR	New Left Review
NUCUA	National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations
OECD	Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
OEEC	Organization for European Economic Co-operation
OMH	output per man hour
OPEC	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
PEP	Political and Economic Planning
PRO	Public Record Office
PSBR	public sector borrowing requirement
R&D	research and development
TCBH	Twentieth Century British History
TUC	Trades Union Congress
UN	United Nations
UNECE	United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

Please note that in all references the place of publication is London unless otherwise stated.

Chapter 1
The importance of decline

The rise and decline of nations and empires has long been a seductive way to write about the past. Gibbons famous account of Rome in these terms has been followed by many later authors, who have applied similar terms, and often similarly moralistic arguments, to every powerful state from ancient Greece to modern America.

Central to most of this kind of declinology is a focus on the place of individual states in the world system of power; it is global strategic and political capacity relative to others that measures rise and decline. Kennedy, like many others, sees this power status as closely linked to economic strength, but it is a countrys ability to make itself felt in world politics that is the key measure of performance. In this view, economic performance is a problem mainly if it is inadequate to support great power ambitions.

A largely separate but equally voluminous literature exists about British economic decline, which treats this perceived failure of performance as a problem in its own right, not usually attaching much importance to explaining why economic performance should be regarded as so significant. This kind of work concentrates its efforts on explaining why, on a range of measures, Britain has at various times since the late nineteenth century fallen short of the economic achievements of other nations. Usually the existence of this decline is more or less taken for granted, with perhaps just a few figures of GDP performance used to establish the case; the central question posed in this literature is, why has it happened? This book is essentially about this second notion of decline.

Whether as an account of world history over centuries or millennia, or as a local account of Britain in the twentieth century, the framework of decline cannot be treated as an innocent description of the past. The use of the term necessarily organises our thinking into particular channels, and pushes us towards certain ways of looking at the world. So we need to step back and ask, where does the term come from, and what are the effects of using it? As Barry Supple puts it, declinism is an ideology, and like all ideologies has a history.

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