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Servicing De‐industrialisation
Author(s) -
LEWIS RUSSELL
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.1983.tb01500.x
Subject(s) - industrialisation , investment (military) , government (linguistics) , tertiary sector of the economy , service (business) , economics , economic policy , business , market economy , economy , political science , politics , linguistics , philosophy , law
Government figures have recently revealed that, while investment in manufacturing industry has fallen by 25% since 1979, the service sector now accounts for 70% of all investment in the UK. Russell Lewis finds that attitudes in Whitehall lag behind this startling change in economic activity.