Letting things rip
Wynne Godley, 7 January 1993
Reflections on Monetarism
by Tim Congdon.
Edward Elgar, 320 pp., £35, November 1992,1 85278 441 5 Show More
by Tim Congdon.
Edward Elgar, 320 pp., £35, November 1992,
“... This book brings together the ‘most important academic papers and journalism’ of Professor Tim Congdon, described in the blurb as ‘one of the City’s most well-known commentators’. Congdon’s provocative thesis is that ‘monetarism’, as adopted by British governments between 1976 and 1985, was a decisive success, but that the gains were lost when Nigel Lawson let things rip, causing a boom that had to go bust ... ”