Table of Contents

Contents Foreword by Marco Buti, Director General of DG ECFIN. Chapter 1: Overview, by Gabriele Guidice, Robert Kuenzel and Thomas Springbett Chapter 2: Accounting for UK economic performance 1973 - 2009, by Ray Barrell, Dawn Holland and Iana Liadze Chapter 3: British labour market performance before the crisis, 1993 - 2007, by Christopher A. Pissarides Chapter 4: Unsustainable consumption: the structural flaw behind the UK's long boom, by Martin Weale Chapter 5: The UK's external position, by Robert Kuenzel Chapter 6: Long-term effects of fiscal policy on the size and distribution of the pie in the UK, by Xavier Ramos and Oriol Roca-Sagales Chapter 7: The changing relationship between the UK economy and its banking sector, by Thomas Springbett Chapter 8: Policy efficacy in the crisis, exit strategies and the return of growth, by E. Philip Davis and Dilruba Karim Chapter 9: Disease and cure in the UK: the fiscal impact of the crisis and the policy response, by Rowena Crawford, Carl Emmerson and Gemma Tetlow Chapter 10: The government's strategy for sustainable growth, by Dave Ramsden

About the Author

Gabriele Giudice, Robert Kuenzel, Tom Springbett

Reviews

This is one of the first comprehensive attempts by a group of well qualified and objective economists from the European Commission and leading UK economics institutions to provide a rigorous analysis of UK economic policy in the last decade. It's a job much needed - and very well done.' -- Roger Liddle, former Europe adviser to Tony Blair and Labour member of the House of Lords