From Dreams to Disillusionment is the first book to cover the planning experiment of the 1960s in full historical detail. Other countries’ planners made the approach seem successful, however, the experiment eventually failed, doomed to disappoint given unrealistic expectations, lack of time and an overburdened government.
Table of Content
List of Tables and Charts Acknowledgements Introduction The Planning Fervour of 1959-1964 Macroeconomic Planning Planning the Public Sector Regional Planning Housing Health Care and the NHS Conclusion: Governance, Choice and History Bibliography
About the author
DR GLEN O’HARA is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University. He was educated at Jesus College, Oxford, where he won the Gladstone and Eubule Thelwall Prizes for History, and University College London. He is also the joint editor, with Helen Parr, of
The Modernization of Britain? Harold Wilson and the Labour Governments of 1964-1970.
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