@book {8309, title = {Governing the Economy: The Politics of State Intervention in Britain and France}, year = {1986}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, abstract = {One of Britain{\textquoteright}s more aristocratic Prime Ministers once said: {\textquoteright}There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insolubleand the economic one...more One of Britain{\textquoteright}s more aristocratic Prime Ministers once said: {\textquoteright}There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.{\textquoteright} Many of his successors might agree; but the two sorts of problems are not always as separable as we imagine. This is a book about the political dimensions of economic management. It attempts to explain the direction that economic policy took in Britain and France over the post-war period; and one of its central contentions is that economic policy-making must be understood as an essentially political process}, url = {http://www.amazon.com/Governing-Economy-Politics-Intervention-International/dp/0195205308}, author = {Peter A. Hall} }