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Finance and the economy

Britain, global economics and finance

• Economic policy in the 1920s
• Economic slump
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• Economic policy in the 1930s
• Policy, protectionism and imperial preference
• The sterling area and stabilisation

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Taxation

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• Labour and the redistribution of wealth
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• Taxation and VAT from 1950
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• Reform and VAT