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In his analysis of public spending in the UK, Michael Burton looks at how the Great Depression of the 1930s shaped political and economic policy after 1945 to favour a cross-party Keynesian consensus over supporting the expanding welfare state and an active government role in the economy.
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Burton, M. (2016). The Rise of Public Spending. In: The Politics of Austerity. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48285-3_2
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