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Conservative Economic Policymaking and the Birth of Thatcherism, 1964–1979, by Adrian Williamson/UK Monetary Policy from Devaluation to Thatcher, 1967–82, by Duncan Needham/Expansionary Fiscal Contraction: The Thatcher Government's 1981 Budget in Perspective, edited by Duncan Needham and Anthony Hotson

London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xvii + 378 pp., £78/120, ISBN 9781137460257/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, xiii + 253 pp., £70/£115, ISBN 9781137369536/Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014, xvi + 251 pp., £65/$99, ISBN 9781107042933

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