What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

David Card & Richard B. Freeman
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Copyright 2004
ISBN 9780226092843
Seeking a Premier Economy
Book: Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980–2000
Book editors: David Card, Richard Blundell & Richard B. Freeman
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
Series: Comparative Labor Markets
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  • David Card and Richard B. Freeman, Seeking a Premier Economy: The Economic Effects of British Economic Reforms, 1980–2000 (University of Chicago Press, 2004), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/seeking-premier-economy-economic-effects-british-economic-reforms-1980-2000/what-have-two-decades-british-economic-reform-delivered.

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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?
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Beginning in 1979 with the newly electted Thatcher Government and continuing under successive Conservative and Labour...

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