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Type: Journal Articles Authors: George Allen and Unwin LA ISSN: Print: 0143-5671 Online: 1475-5890
Published in: Fiscal Studies, Vol. 3, No. 1, March 1982
Volume, issue, pages: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 65-66
The most intractable problem of the British economy has been wage-inflation. Previous governments have tried and failed to cure it by incomes policies; the attempt of the present government to do without them seems even less successful. We sink ever deeper into stagflation because we cannot, it seems, do without incomes policies, yet none of them work. Search |

