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    <title>Decline to fall : the making of British macro-economic policy and the 1976 IMF crisis</title>
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    <namePart>Wass, Douglas</namePart>
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    <namePart type="date">1923-</namePart>
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    <publisher>Oxford University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>1 online resource (xxv, 374 p.)</extent>
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  <abstract>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.</abstract>
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  <note type="statement of responsibility">Douglas Wass.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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    <topic>Monetary policy</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Financial crises</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Economic policy</topic>
    <temporal>1964-1979</temporal>
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    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>1964-1979</temporal>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">332.4941</classification>
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