Dr Roger Middleton
Reader in the History of Political Economy,
University of Bristol
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Britain
since 1979: an interdisciplinary history of contemporary Britain for
Cambridge University Press, to be published in 2007.
- An
edition of the diary of Sir Samuel Brittan whilst at the Department of
Economic Affairs, 1964-6.
- Continuing
work on the postwar economics profession and economic policy:
- Most
recent publications:
‘Economists and economic growth in Britain, c.1955-65’, in L.A.
Black and H. Pemberton (eds) (2004) Affluent
Britain: Britain's postwar 'golden age' revisited. Aldershot: Ashgate,
pp. 129-47.
(with Astrid Ringe and Neil
Rollings) Economic policy under the Conservatives, 1951-64: a guide to
documents in the National Archives of the UK. London: IHR. This is the
final output of our ESRC project; the book is available from the IHR.
- Most
recent conference paper: ‘Economists, growth and welfare during the
Keynesian era’, Fourth International Conference on the Cambridge School
of Economics, ‘Welfare economics and the welfare state’, Institute of
Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, 26-27 February 2005.
- Continuing
work on the rise and fall of big government in Britain:
- Most
recent publication: ‘Government and the economy, 1860-1939’, in R.C.
Floud and P.A. Johnson (eds) (2003) The Cambridge economic history of
modern Britain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Vol. 2: Economic
maturity and stagnation, 1860-1939, pp. 456-89.
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