Financial policy, coalition and Sir Kingsley Wood, 1940-1
Financial policy, coalition and Sir Kingsley Wood, 1940-1
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金融政策、联盟和金斯利·伍德爵士，1940-1
DOI：
10.1093/tcbh/hwu044
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
0.9
通讯作者：
Crowcroft R
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Crowcroft R
最近，人们对第二次世界大战期间的英国政治重新产生了兴趣。与此同时，丘吉尔政府推行的财政战略被广泛认为是迈向“凯恩斯主义”措施的重要一步，长期以来受到学者们的广泛关注。本文对文献做出了新的贡献，探讨了该战略的政治合法性在联盟第一年建立和传达的过程。它特别强调了财政大臣金斯利·伍德爵士在整合联合政府方面的作用。他逐渐建立了对该政策的支持，并努力避免主要政党之间因金融问题发生不稳定的争执。本文主要关注1940年和1941年政策同时制定和解释的关键时期。它试图让人们了解伍德的政策在联合政府的背景下是如何合理的——特别是推销这些政策所采用的方法和语言。
There has recently been renewed interest in British politics during the Second World War. Meanwhile the financial strategy pursued by the Churchill government—widely considered an important step towards ‘Keynesian’ measures—has long received extensive attention from scholars. This article makes a fresh contribution to the literature, exploring the process through which the political legitimacy of that strategy was established and communicated in the first year of the coalition. It places particular emphasis upon the role of Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in integrating the coalition government. He gradually constructed support for the policy and worked to avoid destabilizing rows over finance between the major parties. The article concentrates on the crucial period during 1940 and 1941 when policies were being simultaneously formulatedandexplained. It seeks to give a sense of how Wood’s policies were justified—particularly the methods and language employed to sell them—in the context of coalition.