Public expenditure has increased considerably in the UK from around ten per cent of GDP in the 1870s to forty per cent and above in the 21st century. Clive Lee

This book considers the relationship between public spending and public deficit and the varying successes and difficulties governments have had in recent years

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This is the first systematic quantitative account of British economic growth from the thirteenth century to the Industrial Revolution.

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians