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As Britain approaches the era of a painful downturn in North Sea Oil revenues with rising unemployment, cuts in social welfare provision, mass dislocation in the labour market already in full evidence, many people are casting around for an economic philosophy and practice which may help us avoid becoming ever more underdeveloped as a nation, and not only economically.
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© 1986 Stephen Bodington, Mike George and John Michaelson
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Bodington, S., George, M., Michaelson, J. (1986). Introduction. In: Developing the Socially Useful Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18155-1_1
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