Goodbye, Great Britain : the 1976 IMF crisis /
In March 1976 the value of the British pound began to slide. The slide turned into a rout and triggered an economic and political trauma. By September confidence in the pound had collapsed. In April 1975 the Wall Street Journal had run the headline 'Goodbye, Great Britain, ' advising inves...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
1992.
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- Introduction: 'Goodbye, Great Britain'
- pt. I: The Politics. 1: What's Past is Prologue. 2: The Gathering Storm: March-September 1976. 3: The Crisis Breaks: October-December 1976. 4: Getting Rid of the Sterling Balances
- pt. II: The Economics. 5: The Movement of Opinion. 6: The Loss of Control: The Balance of Payments. 7: The Loss of Control: Domestic Economic Policy. (a): Fiscal Policy. (b): Monetary Policy. (c): Incomes Policy. 8: Comparisons and Conclusions
- Appendix: The Letter of Intent.