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British rearmament and the Treasury, 1932-1939

G. C. Peden
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The article was published on 1979-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 59 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Treasury.

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Analysis of How Energy Efficiency Policies Could Perform in a Liberalized Market

TL;DR: In this paper, the most important energy efficiency policies currently active in the European landscape are described together with an illustration of more obvious critical issues, and the part most significant in application terms is treated, namely how the common policy instruments for energy efficiency could perform in a liberalized market.
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Comment: Further evidence of the quest for an effective regional policy 1934–1937

A.A. Lonie, +1 more
- 01 Dec 1979 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, the quest for an effective regional policy was discussed in the context of regional studies: Vol. 13, No. 6, pp. 497-500, 1979.
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Planning the Public Sector

TL;DR: The Plowden Committee as mentioned in this paper argued that the traditional system of decision making can no longer be effective in containing the growth of expenditure within whatever limit the Government have set, and that decisions involving substantial future expenditure should always be taken in the light of surveys of public expenditure as a whole, over a period of years, and in relation to prospective resources.
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Deterrence and the window of vulnerability in the 1930s — perception and reality

TL;DR: In this paper, the window of vulnerability in the 1930s was discussed. But the window was not defined as a line of defense, but a set of assumptions. And it was defined as perception and reality.
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Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain and the Defence of Empire

G. C. Peden
TL;DR: In his study of British grand strategy before the Second World War, Gibbs was careful to note that the limitations of military power included finance and the productive capacity of industry as discussed by the authors, and also dismissed the myth that British weakness in the 1930s was simply the result of ‘supposed dictatorial obstinacy on the part of Neville Chamberlain.