Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy - from Devaluation to Brexit
by William Keegan  (Author)

About the Author
William Keegan is the senior economics commentator of The Observer, having previously been economics editor and business editor. He joined the paper in 1977, after ten years at the Financial Times and a short secondment to the Bank of England. He is a governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a visiting professor at Sheffield University and the Strand Group, King’s College London.

About this book
In this lively and wide-ranging account, journalist William Keegan takes us on a tumultuous journey through the past fifty years of our economic history – and looks ahead to explain why Brexit poses the biggest existential threat the British economy has yet faced. Peppered with anecdotes and memories from the author’s illustrious career.

Table of content
Introduction
Part I: Cambridge, Fleet Street and the Bank of England
Part II: The Nine Crises
    Economic Background to the Crises
    1. 1967: Devaluation: Before and After
    2. 1973: The Oil Crisis and the Three-Day Week
    3. 1976: The IMF Crisis
    4. 1979–82: Sadomonetarism and Thatcher Recession
    5. 1983–89: Lawson Boom and Bust, and Fallout with Thatcher
    6. 1992: Black Wednesday
    7. 2007–09: Financial Crash
    8. 2010–16: Osborne’s Austerity
    9. 2016: Referendum and Threat of Brexit
Part III: Observer Interviews with Chancellors of the Exchequer, 2006–07

Length: 304 pages
Publisher: Biteback Publishing (September 3, 2019)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1785903047
ISBN-13: 978-1785903045