This is a comprehensive assessment of how economic policy is made in Britain at the start of the 21st century and of how the content of taxation, spending, monetary, and regulatory policy has evolved since 1945 All of this is set in the context of the impact of globalization and the European Union on the autonomy of domestic policy, and an assessment ожвга of the debates about British economic performance and British decline.  WlodzimISBN 033392889X.