Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through: The surprising story of Britain's economy – Duncan Weldon, Abacus (2021) & Shattered Nation – Danny Dorling, Verso (2023)
Duncan Weldon outlines the contours of British economy history since the early 1800s. Since I can barely remember what I had for breakfast, I’ll focus on the years following WWII. From the 1940s-1970s, Weldon suggests there was a “great deal of economic continuity”.
The most notable policy consistency was
