01571nam a2200337 a 4500 EDZ0000073686 StDuBDS 20170910142016.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 091031s2008 enk fo 001 0 eng d 9780191715884 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS HG939.5 332.4941 22 Wass, Douglas, Sir, 1923- Decline to fall : the making of British macro-economic policy and the 1976 IMF crisis / [electronic resource] Douglas Wass. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2008. 1 online resource (xxv, 374 p.) Includes bibliographical references and index. Written by the former Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury, Sir Douglas Wass, 'Decline to Fall' traces the unusual events of the 1976 IMF crisis which saw the UK government accept a massive loan from the IMF. Using a wealth of documentation, he questions the inevitability of the crisis and the measures taken to resolve it. Description based on print version record. International Monetary Fund. Monetary policy Great Britain. Financial crises Great Britain. Great Britain Economic policy 1964-1979. Great Britain Politics and government 1964-1979. Print version 9780199534746 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534746.001.0001 ddc BK 36420 36420