The IMF Crisis of 1976 and British Politics

by Kevin Hickson

The 1976 IMF crisis was a seminal event in modern British political and economic history. The seeds of the crisis were sown by the huge OPEC oil price shocks of 1972-3 leading to the potential meltdown of Britain's already weakened economy and seemingly confirming Britain's headlong decline as a major political and economic power. The government was seen as going 'cap in hand' to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to head off disaster - an image...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850437254
• ISBN13: 9781850437253
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.1" x 8.0"