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This chapter is concerned with economic policy making in Britain during the 1970s and is based upon my experience as Senior Policy Adviser to the prime minister and head of the Policy Unit in Downing Street from March 1974 until May 1979.
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This chapter is based on a paper delivered at the British—American Festival, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, on 13 June 1984. Dr Donoughue’s paper, together with the others delivered on the same occasion, will be published in Richard Hodder-Williams and James Ceaser (eds), Politics in Britain and the United States: Comparative Perspectives on Institutions and Political Culture (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985).
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Donoughue, B. (1985). The Conduct of Economic Policy 1974–79. In: King, A. (eds) The British Prime Minister. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17887-2_3
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