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This was not an easy read. Interesting maybe, though I'm not sure how much of its considerable information content I shall in the long term retain. Or short term for that matter.It was an interesting history of the British economy from the 1950s to the present day - to just after the 2015 election in fact. It was an exposition of the chancellors over that period and serves to evaluate their performances.The peroblem was that, while Smith endeavoured to make the whole readable, he peppered much o...
A brief economic history of Britain from about 1960, and very little else, is not exactly a sure hit. And if you are not interested in such a topic, you'd be advised to steer clear. But this was more accessible than I'd expected, and managed to give a balanced account without getting too bogged down in detail, while adding colour from Smith's experience as a journalist. Smith often related the fate of the West Midlands to that of the economy as a whole, which was very relevant to a Midlander (if...