week 15 – The twentieth century economy – an overview [pdf] / figures
week 16 – Britain’s economic performance in the 20th century [pdf] / data and charts
Primary reading
w15
Crafts, N (2014), Economic growth during the long twentieth century, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp26-59]
Edgar, D (2014), 25 years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall, the far right is on the rise, The Guardian, Nov 5th
* Hobsbawm, E (1994), The Age of Extremes 1914-1991, London: Michael Joseph
Lindsay, C (2003), A century of labour market change: 1900 to 2000, ONS
* Rijpma, A (2014), A composite view of well-being since 1820, in van Zanden, JL et al (2014), How Was Life? Global well-being since 1820, OECD
w16
* Bolt, J, Timmer, M and van Zanden, JL (2014), GDP per capita since 1820, in van Zanden, JL et al (2014), How Was Life? Global well-being since 1820, OECD
Bolt J et al (2018), REBASING ‘MADDISON’: NEW INCOME COMPARISONS AND THE SHAPE OF LONG-RUN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, GGDC Research memorandum, 174, January
* Crafts, N (2014), Economic growth during the long twentieth century, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp26-59]
Crafts, N and O’Rourke, KH (2013), Twentieth century growth, Unversity of Oxford Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, no 117, September
Crafts, N (2016), The Growth Effects of EU Membership for the UK: a Review of the Evidence, University of Warwick Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, working paper 280, Mar
* Elliot, L (2015), Comparing recessions is hard, but Britain has coped better this time, The Guardian, Oct 18th
Elliot, L (2019), It’s more than a decade since the financial crisis. Where’s the recovery?, The Guardian, Dec 29th
Harley, K (2014), The legacy of the early start, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [excerpt from publisher]
Kirby, S (2013), The United Kingdom: When will the recovery arrive?, NIESR
Morys, M (2014), Cycles and depressions, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp229-254]
Other material
Clark, C (2016), The ever widening war – ep 1 The war of empires, BBC Radio 4, Jan 11th
O’Toole, F (2019), A Short History of Brexit by Kevin O’Rourke review – a devastating account, The Guardian, Jan 16th