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Papers by Professor R Middleton

Research paper thumbnail of Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge. By J. Adam Tooze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xviii + 314 pp. Figures, diagrams, tables, graphs. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-80318-7

Business History Review, 2002

in the late 1930s. Food supplies remained adequate for the population until the devastating final... more in the late 1930s. Food supplies remained adequate for the population until the devastating final period of the war. Belgium's vivid memories of German occupation during World War I led it to accept economic collaboration as a form of self-protection, "the least evil." L'Occupation, I'Etat frangais et les Entreprises is a successful effort to examine the Occupation in the light of specific issues posed by business and economic history in the period extending from the Depression to the Fifth Republic. And it compares the economy of occupied France with those of other nations occupied by the Germans in 1940 without eschewing examination of the particular horrendous political, social, economic, and moral policies of the Vichy regime.

Research paper thumbnail of W(h)ither Economic History, or Economic History is what Economic Historians Do?

Research paper thumbnail of Information Technology in Economic and Social History: The Computer as Philosopher's Stone or Pandora's Box?

The Economic History Review, 1990

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Struggling with the impossible: Sterling, the balance of payments and British economic policy, 1949–72

The open economy macromodel: past, present, …, 2002

Chapter 5 STRUGGLING WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE: STERLING, THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND BRITISH ECONOMIC ... more Chapter 5 STRUGGLING WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE: STERLING, THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY, 1949-72 Roger Middleton University of Bristol 1. INTRODUCTION Our purpose in this paper is to explore how endemic sterling crises and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Britain's economic problem: too small a public sector?

This paper draws upon the results of a larger project published as Government versus the market (... more This paper draws upon the results of a larger project published as Government versus the market (Middleton 1996b). It also develops the long-run public finance dataset there reported and the reader is referred to ch.3 and app. I of this earlier work for full details of all of the estimates of public sector growth here discussed. I should like to thank the University of Bristol research fund for financial assistance, Professors George Peden and Bernard Alford, and participants in the ICBH 'British history 1945-95' conference and the All Souls Seminar in Economic and Social History for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Any remaining errors of fact, analysis or interpretation are, of course, entirely my own. This paper was completed with knowledge of the latest edition of Bacon and Eltis's Britain's economic problem (Bacon and Eltis 1996), but without the benefit of having read the full text. I am grateful to Walter Eltis for discussing the substance of this new edition.. The following conventions are used. The prewar, interwar and postwar periods refer to the pre-First World War, interwar and post-Second World War periods respectively; EC-9 to the nine European Community states at first (1973) enlargement (EC-9** as EC-9 but excluding Ireland and Luxembourg) and EC-12 at second/third enlargement (1981, 1986), G-7 to the seven leading industrial economies (G-7** as G-7 but excluding Canada and Italy), and the OECD to the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Unless otherwise stated GDP is measured at current market prices and all growth rates are annual average compound percentage rates. This text is the 1997 version save that where papers cited were originally produced as working papers and are now published the later reference has been substituted.

Research paper thumbnail of BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE 1950S AND 1960S

Research paper thumbnail of macroeconomic policy in interwar britain

Drafts by Professor R Middleton

Research paper thumbnail of Ralph Turvey (1927–2012

This paper surveys the life and writings of the LSE economist, Ralph Turvey (1927-2012), who made... more This paper surveys the life and writings of the LSE economist, Ralph Turvey (1927-2012), who made contributions to macroeconomics and applied welfare economics. This paper was written for the forthcoming Palgrave companion to LSE economics, edited by Robert A. Cord Chapter in R.A. Cord (ed.) The Palgrave companion to LSE economics, forthcoming.

Research paper thumbnail of Statistics and the German State, 1900–1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge. By J. Adam Tooze. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. xviii + 314 pp. Figures, diagrams, tables, graphs. Cloth, $59.95. ISBN 0-521-80318-7

Business History Review, 2002

in the late 1930s. Food supplies remained adequate for the population until the devastating final... more in the late 1930s. Food supplies remained adequate for the population until the devastating final period of the war. Belgium's vivid memories of German occupation during World War I led it to accept economic collaboration as a form of self-protection, "the least evil." L'Occupation, I'Etat frangais et les Entreprises is a successful effort to examine the Occupation in the light of specific issues posed by business and economic history in the period extending from the Depression to the Fifth Republic. And it compares the economy of occupied France with those of other nations occupied by the Germans in 1940 without eschewing examination of the particular horrendous political, social, economic, and moral policies of the Vichy regime.

Research paper thumbnail of W(h)ither Economic History, or Economic History is what Economic Historians Do?

Research paper thumbnail of Information Technology in Economic and Social History: The Computer as Philosopher's Stone or Pandora's Box?

The Economic History Review, 1990

ABSTRACT

Research paper thumbnail of Struggling with the impossible: Sterling, the balance of payments and British economic policy, 1949–72

The open economy macromodel: past, present, …, 2002

Chapter 5 STRUGGLING WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE: STERLING, THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND BRITISH ECONOMIC ... more Chapter 5 STRUGGLING WITH THE IMPOSSIBLE: STERLING, THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY, 1949-72 Roger Middleton University of Bristol 1. INTRODUCTION Our purpose in this paper is to explore how endemic sterling crises and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Britain's economic problem: too small a public sector?

This paper draws upon the results of a larger project published as Government versus the market (... more This paper draws upon the results of a larger project published as Government versus the market (Middleton 1996b). It also develops the long-run public finance dataset there reported and the reader is referred to ch.3 and app. I of this earlier work for full details of all of the estimates of public sector growth here discussed. I should like to thank the University of Bristol research fund for financial assistance, Professors George Peden and Bernard Alford, and participants in the ICBH 'British history 1945-95' conference and the All Souls Seminar in Economic and Social History for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Any remaining errors of fact, analysis or interpretation are, of course, entirely my own. This paper was completed with knowledge of the latest edition of Bacon and Eltis's Britain's economic problem (Bacon and Eltis 1996), but without the benefit of having read the full text. I am grateful to Walter Eltis for discussing the substance of this new edition.. The following conventions are used. The prewar, interwar and postwar periods refer to the pre-First World War, interwar and post-Second World War periods respectively; EC-9 to the nine European Community states at first (1973) enlargement (EC-9** as EC-9 but excluding Ireland and Luxembourg) and EC-12 at second/third enlargement (1981, 1986), G-7 to the seven leading industrial economies (G-7** as G-7 but excluding Canada and Italy), and the OECD to the members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Unless otherwise stated GDP is measured at current market prices and all growth rates are annual average compound percentage rates. This text is the 1997 version save that where papers cited were originally produced as working papers and are now published the later reference has been substituted.

Research paper thumbnail of BRITISH ECONOMIC POLICY IN THE 1950S AND 1960S

Research paper thumbnail of macroeconomic policy in interwar britain

Research paper thumbnail of Ralph Turvey (1927–2012

This paper surveys the life and writings of the LSE economist, Ralph Turvey (1927-2012), who made... more This paper surveys the life and writings of the LSE economist, Ralph Turvey (1927-2012), who made contributions to macroeconomics and applied welfare economics. This paper was written for the forthcoming Palgrave companion to LSE economics, edited by Robert A. Cord Chapter in R.A. Cord (ed.) The Palgrave companion to LSE economics, forthcoming.