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David Worswick, 21 December 1989
The Economic Section, 1939-1961: A Study in Economic Advising
by Alec Cairncross and Nita Watts.
Routledge, 372 pp., £40, May 1989,0 415 03173 7 Show More
by Alec Cairncross and Nita Watts.
Routledge, 372 pp., £40, May 1989,
The Robert Hall Diaries. Vol. I: 1947-1953
edited by Alec Cairncross.
Unwin Hyman, 400 pp., £40, May 1989,9780044452737 Show More
edited by Alec Cairncross.
Unwin Hyman, 400 pp., £40, May 1989,
“... worked in the Section, Alec Cairncross briefly in 1940-41, and again as its head after 1961, and Nita Watts from 1941 to 1955. Economic mobilisation got off to a leisurely start during the ‘phoney war’, but speeded up sharply after Dunkirk, and by the time the Economic Section was established in 1940 the main structures of the war economy, such as ... ”
