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In 1944 the Coalition Government, with the approval of all political parties, published a White Paper on Employment Policy in which government in the U.K. accepted the responsibility for maintaining a ‘high and stable level of employment’.
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Financial Statement, 1968–69 (H.M.S.O., Mar 1969).
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Public Expenditure in 1968–69 and 1969–70 Cmnd 3515 (H.M.S.O., Jan 1968).
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Devaluation details can be found in The Economist 25 Nov 1967, or the Midland Bank Review (Feb 1968).
Budget details can be referred to in Hansard 19 Mar 1968 and 15 Apr 1969; The Times, Guardian or Financial Times of the days following the Budget; or The Economist 23 Mar 1968 and 19 Apr 1969.
Convenient sources of regular financial banking and trade statistics are the Monthly Summary of Business Conditions in the United Kingdom published by the National and Commercial Banking Group Ltd; and the Midland Bank Review which, besides regular quarterly assessments of ‘Business and Finance’, includes an ’Annual Monetary Survey’ in the May issue.
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Sandford, C.T. (1970). Fiscal and Monetary Policy. In: Economic Policy. Case Studies in Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15733-4_12
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