Abstract
This chapter will examine the crisis of the British economy since the mid-1960s. It will concentrate on three elements of the crisis which have influenced the emergence of local and regional shareholding: firstly, the restructuring of British industry, and the role the state has played in this; secondly, the ‘property boom’, and the role the state has played in this, too; and thirdly, the pressures by central government to reduce state expenditure. We will then go on to look at the spatial implications of these elements of the crisis; in other words, we will look at how far they have affected different parts of the country differentially.
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Minns, R., Thornley, J. (1978). Intervention and the Crisis. In: State Shareholding. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03768-1_2
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