Dr Roger Middleton
Reader in the History of Political Economy,
University of Bristol
Downloads of unpublished, forthcoming or longer-version
papers:
Under development
- Backhouse,
Middleton and Tribe (1997) ‘”Economics is what economists do”, but what do
the numbers tell us?’ [Annual History of Economic Thought Conference,
Bristol pdf
version]
- Middleton
(1995) ‘The growth of government 1945-95: another British peculiarity?’
[ICBH conference pdf
version; subsequently revised as ‘Britain’s economic problem: too
small a public sector?’ pdf
version]
- Middleton
(1997) ‘Whatever happened to the Laffer curve’ [seminar paper pdf
version]
- Middleton
(2002) ‘Struggling with the impossible: sterling, the balance of payments
and British economic policy, 1949–72’ [published in A. Arnon and W.L.
Young (eds) (2002g) The open economy macromodel: past, present and
future. Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 103-54; longer
conference version pdf
version]
- Middleton
(2004) ‘Economists and economic growth in Britain, c.1955–65: a triumph of
ersatz over academic economics?’ [published as ‘Economists and economic
growth in Britain, c.1955-65’, in L.A. Black and H. Pemberton (eds)
(2004j) Affluent Britain: Britain's postwar 'golden age' revisited.
Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 129-47. longer conference version pdf
version]
- Middleton
(2004) ‘W(h)ither economic history, or economic history is what economic
historians do?’ [published in Business History, 46.3 (July 2004),
pp. 461–73 pdf
version]
- Middleton
(2005) ‘Economists, growth and welfare during the Keynesian era’ [IER
Tokyo, ‘Cambridge School of Economics: Welfare Economics and the Welfare
State’ Workshop, February 2005: word
version; pdf
version; handout
of Figures & Tables for workshop]
- Middleton
(2005) ‘Diaries of Sir Samuel Brittan at the Departmentn of Economic
Affairs, 1964-6’ [under development] BrittanDiaries25.05.05.doc
- Rollings
and Middleton (2002) ‘British economic policy in the 1950s and 1960s’
[Economic History Society annual conference, Birmingham pdf
version]
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