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The Left Intellectual Opposition in Britain 1945 – 2000: the Case of the Alternative Economic Strategy

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The failure of the left intellectual opposition to have a major impact on British political and economic life in the post war world is largely due to underlying weaknesses in its conceptual framework. As can be seen in this group’s critiques in the 1970s and 1980s of Labour’s Alternative Economic Strategy, much of the economic analysis was objectively incorrect and the policy prescriptions inoperative. The broad-based rejection of left policies by the public was based on an intuitive grasp of these inadequacies, rather than to any explicit `turning to the right’ of the population or to shortcomings in the political tactics of the left.

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  • Auerbach, Paul, 2003. "The Left Intellectual Opposition in Britain 1945 – 2000: the Case of the Alternative Economic Strategy," Economics Discussion Papers 2003-9, School of Economics, Kingston University London.
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