Explains the UK economy as a macroeconomy and as a financial system, as well as examining spending, taxing and borrowing and external transactions within the economy and the labour market, and welfare and industrial policy within the UK economy.

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Introduction, P.Curwen; the macroeconomy, P.Curwen; the macroeconomy 2, P.Curwen; the financial system, P.Curwen; spending, taxing and borrowing, P.Curwen; external transactions, P.Curwen; external relations, P.Curwen; employment and unemployment, P.Curwen; the labour market, P.Curwen; welfare - inequality and poverty, P.Marshall; industry and policy, K.Hartley and N.Hooper; macroeconomic policy, D.Gowland and S.James.