Dr Glen O’Hara is Reader in the History of Public Policy at Oxford Brookes University. His new book, Governing Post-War Britain: The Paradoxes of Progress, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in April of this year. He blogs, in a personal capacity, at http://publicpolicypast.blogspot.com/.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKOut of Time: bringing history to bear on economics and policy
If politicians learned from history, they could avoid repeating its policy mistakes.