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The British "Voluntary" Incomes Experiment, 1964-1969, Ellen S. Bank

Masters Theses

There is a general consensus that the most recent attempt at incomes policy in Great Britain was unsuccessful. In this thesis I shall attempt to analyze and evaluate the policy with an emphasis on the particular features of the policy to which its lack of success may be attributed.

Chapter I examines the factors which first made such a policy seem to be an appealing panacea for all of Great Britain’s economic problems; specifically the economic conditions prior to the Labor Government’s ascension to power in 1964 are analyzed.

Chapter II examines some early attempts at incomes policy with an …