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Hecrth, Public Investment’ and the People of Consett
Author(s) -
Atkinson Rodney
Publication year - 1985
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.1468-0270.1985.tb01708.x
Subject(s) - unemployment , economic interventionism , investment (military) , government (linguistics) , state (computer science) , intervention (counseling) , public investment , economics , economic growth , economic history , labour economics , development economics , economic policy , political science , law , medicine , public welfare , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , politics , computer science
Edward Heath continues intermittently to call for increased state spending to relieve unemployment and stimulate economic growth. Rodney Atkinson examines the history of the steel town, Consett (Mr Heath's example), to reveal that government intervention is the cause of its problems, not its potential saviour.