Description: Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in Scotland 1, Hardcover by Levitt, Ian (EDT), ISBN 0197265790, ISBN-13 9780197265796, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Th sets out to establish the Treasury view of Scottish claims for public expenditure from the establishment of the Scottish Office in 1885 to the failed referendum on political devolution in 1979. Drawn largely from previously unresearched (and partly uncatalogued) Treasury documents
held at The National Archives (UK) it provides a unique appreciation whether its ministers and officials viewed public investment north of the border as economically productive, designed to ensure equivalence in public investment between Scotland and England, or otherwise to placate Scottish
interests.
Th begins with a selection of documents drawn from the period between 1885 and 1914: a time of limited government, but which saw consistent Scottish claims for additional expenditure to alleviate Highland distress, to support Scottish fisheries, and fund an expansion of its four ancient
universities, as well as securing a formula that ensured equivalence in educational expenditure. It then reproduces documents covering the inter-war years when government policy aspired to reconcile demands for collective provision with its belief in a free market. It locates Scottish claims within
the Treasurys desire to secure an appropriate balance between English and Scottish public expenditure. Finally, th draws on documents from 1940 until 1979, when the primary goal of government was to manage collective provision within a mixed economy. In doing so it illustrates Treasury
concerns on the directions of the Scottish economy, and on seeking more devolved responsibility for the choices on investment that Scottish ministers sought. Throughout it considers the changes in the Treasurys administrative structure as it impacted on Scottish claims.
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Book Title: Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in Scotland 1885-1979
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Publication Name: Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in Scotland 1885-1979
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Item Height: 1.3 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Public Affairs & Administration, General, Economic Conditions, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Europe / General
Item Weight: 23.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Ian Levitt
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Series: Records of Social and Economic History Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
