The Redistributive Effect of Inflation on Building Society Shares and Deposits: 1961–74

Foster, John

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1976.tb00124.x

Bulletin of Econ Res

1976

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8586.1976.tb00124.x

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The Redistributive Effect of Inflation on Building Society Shares and Deposits: 1961–74

John Foster¹

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British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid‐1970s

Tomlinson

2014

The Economic History Review

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In Britain in the 1970s inflation rose to historically unprecedented peace‐time levels, and became the central issue of economic policy‐making. We know a great deal about the elite policy debates on the significance of this inflation, and the arguments about how to reduce it, but we know far less about how inflation was understood by the population at large, and how those understandings were shaped. This article explores the evidence on popular understanding, especially analysing the material gathered by the Counter‐Inflation Publicity Unit, created in the summer of 1975. Along with other evidence, this material is used to explore how far the Labour government's economic propaganda can be said to have influenced popular opinion on both the significance and causes of inflation. The evidence supports the argument that the belief that trade unions were the main culprit for inflation was reinforced and entrenched by this propaganda, with important unintended consequences for the arguments about policy that followed the ‘Winter of Discontent’ of 1978/9.

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British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid‐1970s

Tomlinson

2014

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The Impact of Capital Gains on the Distribution of Income in Belgium

Praet

1980

Review of Income and Wealth

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In an earlier paper, we presented estimates of capital gains for a number of categories of assets owned by Belgian households. The purpose of the present paper is to see how the distribution of disposable income between socio‐economic groups is modified when one adopts a “broadened” definition of income which includes capital gains corrected for losses of purchasing power. The main result of the study is that at current prices, the adoption of a broadened definition of income strongly increases disparities between socio‐economic groups. However, when one takes into account losses in purchasing power, conclusions differ according to the period analyzed. For the years 1953–68, it appears that the distribution of broadened disposable income is more unequal than the distribution of disposable income. For the years 1969–77 when inflation was high, the adoption of a broadened definition of income has reduced disparities, with the important exception of old age pensioners.

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The Redistributive Effect of Inflation on Building Society Shares and Deposits: 1961–74

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British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid‐1970s

British government and popular understanding of inflation in the mid‐1970s

The Impact of Capital Gains on the Distribution of Income in Belgium

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