Brian Burkitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 135826 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Burkitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Burkitt |
| SIGNATURE | BURKITT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bradford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Eurozone as a Flawed Currency Area
The European single currency system has come under unprecedented strain during the past three years and there is little reason to assume that this will diminish, in any significant way, in the near future. This article briefly explores the background to the current eurozone crisis before outlining a number of potential solutions. Specifically, we discuss how the credit crunch induced recession of 2008 triggered the problems within the eurozone re…
Beyond EU neoliberalisation
Over the past two decades, the left has increasingly embraced European integration as a bulwark to globalisation. However, the view that the EU provides the potential for realising a progressive social and economic policy is problematic, since its approach is antithetical to traditional democratic-socialist objectives. Thus, the left either has to redouble its efforts to realise a fundamental reform of the EU's institutions and policy framework, …
The Political Economy of Social Credit and Guild Socialism
This work approaches the phenomenon of guild socialism from a new perspective, focusing on the Douglas Social Credit movement. It explores the key ideas, gives an overview of the main theories and traces their subsequent history. Thoroughly researched, it provides original material relevant to the field of political economy. This early approach to non-equilibrium economics reveals the extent of the incompatibility between capitalist growth econom…
Alternative Relationships between Britain and the EU
Spinning Europe
The impact of pro‐European Union (EU) propaganda campaigns in Britain has been neglected within EU studies and in the recent work on the Europeanisation of political parties, trade unions and the British state. Bringing together the few sources of information that exist, this article documents the three government‐organised pro‐EU propaganda campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s. It specifically discusses the campaigns in 1962—63 to bolster public sup…
Post-Keynesianism and a neo-liberal EMU
A crucial idea introduced by Keynes1 into the corpus of economic thought is that the level of output and employment under market capitalism depends upon interaction between total spending and the e
European Integration and the Battle for British Hearts and Minds
Pro-Europeans have organised three concerted propaganda campaigns to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the European Union, in 1970-1 to prepare the public for accession, and in 1974-5 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 referendum. This article looks at New Labour’s preparations and strategy for what is likely to be Britain’s fourth concerted pro-European propaganda campaign to ensur…
Economic Policy Outside EMU
The Transformation of Fisher King to Robber Baron
Alternative Ways of Financing Production
Based upon the work of C.H.Douglas, this paper explores the role of debt in the economy. In the 1920s Douglas observed the workings of financial mechanisms within the real economy, noting that they could be modified to achieve a socially and
Towards a new approach to income distribution and enviromental sustainability
The paper argues that, in contemporary market economies, most production is debt financed. In order to pay off these debts, there is a necessity for economic growth that results in enormous waste of human effort and a misuse of the earth's resources. The Douglas–Orage Social Credit analysis, which attracted world-wide attention during the 1920s and 1930s, concluded that the pressure for economic growth, induced by the role of finance, led inevita…
Convergence criteria and EMU membership
This article evaluates proposed alternative criteria to determine the suitability for membership of the European single currency. They comprise the Maastricht Treaty convergence targets, the UK Treasury tests and those advanced by contemporary economic theory. Each set of criteria is analysed to reveal its ability to indicate a country's suitability to participate in the common currency together with the probability of these targets being attaine…
The Contemporary Relevance of Clifford Hugh Douglas
A critical British perspective
An economic silence
The birth of the stakeholder society
This article critically explores the political function of communitarian 'new economics', most prominently promulgated by the American aca demic Amitai Etzioni, in the formation of New Labour politics. It ident ifies the ways in which this supposedly mould-breaking, profoundly moralistic social economics has been hammered into Stakeholder Economy shape by Blair's team, determined to recover Labour's electoral fortunes by charting a course 'twixt …
The European parliamentary election of 1994 and racism in Europe
Keywords: European Parliamentary electionsMaastricht treatyracismunemploymentdiscriminationextreme right
Equitable Voting in the EU
The disagreement within the European Union (EU) concerning the system of qualified majority voting highlighted the inequalities within the present allocation of votes. With enlargement these inequalities are likely to intensify. We suggest that the EU should examine alternative methods for the allocation of Council votes. Two possible scenarios are allocation according to population size, and second, allocation based upon contributions to the EU …
The Maastricht Treaty's impact on the welfare state
A central theme of contemporary political and economic debate is the relationship between Britain and the European Union (EU). The most recent and controversial development has been. the evolution towards closer integration within the EU, culminating in the Maastricht Treaty signed in December 1991. This imposed a new dimension of EU control over a nation's economic and political independence. The key economic criteria for convergence towards eco…
Public Sector Reform in Sweden
The maastricht treaty
Ethnic discrimination is widespread in the European Community [EC] and is particularly practised against visible minorities. It operates at national borders and with member states and ranges from racist immigration legislation, through institutionalized discrimination, to physical assaults and murders. The completion of the single internal market in January 1993 stressed financial and trade factors at the expense of human rights. This encouraged …
The Operation of a Local Economic Strategy of Employment Generation in a Mixed Economy
The Role of the Swedish Employers in Restructuring Pay Bargaining and the Labour Process
The Performance of British Agriculture and the Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy
United Kingdom (UK) accession into the European Economic Community (EEC), which became a political likelihood in 1970 and an actuality in 1973, led to a major change in agricultural policy away from a deficiency payments system supporting farmers' incomes towards the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) method of assistance through farm prices above the market level. Such a basic alteration in government activity not only imposed well-known and thoro…
The Capitalist Alternative
The maastricht treaty
Ethnic discrimination is widespread in the European Community [EC] and is particularly practised against visible minorities. It operates at national borders and with member states and ranges from racist immigration legislation, through institutionalized discrimination, to physical assaults and murders. The completion of the single internal market in January 1993 stressed financial and trade factors at the expense of human rights. This encouraged …
Economic Policy Outside EMU
The European parliamentary election of 1994 and racism in Europe
Keywords: European Parliamentary electionsMaastricht treatyracismunemploymentdiscriminationextreme right
Wage Determination and Trade Unions1
Beyond EU neoliberalisation
Over the past two decades, the left has increasingly embraced European integration as a bulwark to globalisation. However, the view that the EU provides the potential for realising a progressive social and economic policy is problematic, since its approach is antithetical to traditional democratic-socialist objectives. Thus, the left either has to redouble its efforts to realise a fundamental reform of the EU's institutions and policy framework, …
Convergence criteria and EMU membership
This article evaluates proposed alternative criteria to determine the suitability for membership of the European single currency. They comprise the Maastricht Treaty convergence targets, the UK Treasury tests and those advanced by contemporary economic theory. Each set of criteria is analysed to reveal its ability to indicate a country's suitability to participate in the common currency together with the probability of these targets being attaine…
The birth of the stakeholder society
This article critically explores the political function of communitarian 'new economics', most prominently promulgated by the American aca demic Amitai Etzioni, in the formation of New Labour politics. It ident ifies the ways in which this supposedly mould-breaking, profoundly moralistic social economics has been hammered into Stakeholder Economy shape by Blair's team, determined to recover Labour's electoral fortunes by charting a course 'twixt …
The Role of the Swedish Employers in Restructuring Pay Bargaining and the Labour Process
Spinning Europe
The impact of pro‐European Union (EU) propaganda campaigns in Britain has been neglected within EU studies and in the recent work on the Europeanisation of political parties, trade unions and the British state. Bringing together the few sources of information that exist, this article documents the three government‐organised pro‐EU propaganda campaigns of the 1960s and 1970s. It specifically discusses the campaigns in 1962—63 to bolster public sup…
Post-Keynesianism and a neo-liberal EMU
A crucial idea introduced by Keynes1 into the corpus of economic thought is that the level of output and employment under market capitalism depends upon interaction between total spending and the e
The Maastricht Treaty's impact on the welfare state
A central theme of contemporary political and economic debate is the relationship between Britain and the European Union (EU). The most recent and controversial development has been. the evolution towards closer integration within the EU, culminating in the Maastricht Treaty signed in December 1991. This imposed a new dimension of EU control over a nation's economic and political independence. The key economic criteria for convergence towards eco…
Public Sector Reform in Sweden
Alternative Relationships between Britain and the EU
European Integration and the Battle for British Hearts and Minds
Pro-Europeans have organised three concerted propaganda campaigns to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the European Union, in 1970-1 to prepare the public for accession, and in 1974-5 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 referendum. This article looks at New Labour’s preparations and strategy for what is likely to be Britain’s fourth concerted pro-European propaganda campaign to ensur…
The Performance of British Agriculture and the Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy
United Kingdom (UK) accession into the European Economic Community (EEC), which became a political likelihood in 1970 and an actuality in 1973, led to a major change in agricultural policy away from a deficiency payments system supporting farmers' incomes towards the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) method of assistance through farm prices above the market level. Such a basic alteration in government activity not only imposed well-known and thoro…
Wage Determination and Trade Unions1
Wage Determination and Trade Unions
Choke and Markets; the “New Right's” Approach to welfare
Anelikogamy1
Why Be a Wife
The authors study British data concerning the length of time spent in marriage by men and women which could be interpreted as an indicator of the differential benefits derived by men and women from the matrimonial relation. Sex differentials in life expectancy and in remarriage rates are examined as factors contributing to differences in the proportion of time spent in marriage. The economic implications of these trends are also discussed with em…
The Capitalist Alternative
The Political Economy of Employee Investment Funds
No man is good enough to be another man’s master’ (William Morris). Economists frequently describe efficiency and equality as two separate, yet potentially conflicting, objectives. While in some circumstances the achievement of one of these objectives might preclude attaining the other, the evidence suggests that the post-war British economy has suffered a decline in relative efficiency with no progress towards greater equality. Faster growth rat…
The Performance of British Agriculture and the Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy
United Kingdom (UK) accession into the European Economic Community (EEC), which became a political likelihood in 1970 and an actuality in 1973, led to a major change in agricultural policy away from a deficiency payments system supporting farmers' incomes towards the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) method of assistance through farm prices above the market level. Such a basic alteration in government activity not only imposed well-known and thoro…
The Operation of a Local Economic Strategy of Employment Generation in a Mixed Economy
The Role of the Swedish Employers in Restructuring Pay Bargaining and the Labour Process
The Maastricht Treaty's impact on the welfare state
A central theme of contemporary political and economic debate is the relationship between Britain and the European Union (EU). The most recent and controversial development has been. the evolution towards closer integration within the EU, culminating in the Maastricht Treaty signed in December 1991. This imposed a new dimension of EU control over a nation's economic and political independence. The key economic criteria for convergence towards eco…
Public Sector Reform in Sweden
The maastricht treaty
Ethnic discrimination is widespread in the European Community [EC] and is particularly practised against visible minorities. It operates at national borders and with member states and ranges from racist immigration legislation, through institutionalized discrimination, to physical assaults and murders. The completion of the single internal market in January 1993 stressed financial and trade factors at the expense of human rights. This encouraged …
The European parliamentary election of 1994 and racism in Europe
Keywords: European Parliamentary electionsMaastricht treatyracismunemploymentdiscriminationextreme right
Equitable Voting in the EU
The disagreement within the European Union (EU) concerning the system of qualified majority voting highlighted the inequalities within the present allocation of votes. With enlargement these inequalities are likely to intensify. We suggest that the EU should examine alternative methods for the allocation of Council votes. Two possible scenarios are allocation according to population size, and second, allocation based upon contributions to the EU …
The birth of the stakeholder society
This article critically explores the political function of communitarian 'new economics', most prominently promulgated by the American aca demic Amitai Etzioni, in the formation of New Labour politics. It ident ifies the ways in which this supposedly mould-breaking, profoundly moralistic social economics has been hammered into Stakeholder Economy shape by Blair's team, determined to recover Labour's electoral fortunes by charting a course 'twixt …
A critical British perspective
An economic silence
Towards a new approach to income distribution and enviromental sustainability
The paper argues that, in contemporary market economies, most production is debt financed. In order to pay off these debts, there is a necessity for economic growth that results in enormous waste of human effort and a misuse of the earth's resources. The Douglas–Orage Social Credit analysis, which attracted world-wide attention during the 1920s and 1930s, concluded that the pressure for economic growth, induced by the role of finance, led inevita…
Convergence criteria and EMU membership
This article evaluates proposed alternative criteria to determine the suitability for membership of the European single currency. They comprise the Maastricht Treaty convergence targets, the UK Treasury tests and those advanced by contemporary economic theory. Each set of criteria is analysed to reveal its ability to indicate a country's suitability to participate in the common currency together with the probability of these targets being attaine…
The Contemporary Relevance of Clifford Hugh Douglas
Economic Policy Outside EMU
The Transformation of Fisher King to Robber Baron
Alternative Ways of Financing Production
Based upon the work of C.H.Douglas, this paper explores the role of debt in the economy. In the 1920s Douglas observed the workings of financial mechanisms within the real economy, noting that they could be modified to achieve a socially and
European Integration and the Battle for British Hearts and Minds
Pro-Europeans have organised three concerted propaganda campaigns to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the European Union, in 1970-1 to prepare the public for accession, and in 1974-5 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 referendum. This article looks at New Labour’s preparations and strategy for what is likely to be Britain’s fourth concerted pro-European propaganda campaign to ensur…
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