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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Another referendum? If so, what kind? -- 2 Options for an independent Scotland -- 3 Deficit, debt, the sharing of assets and options for the currency -- 4 Other challenges for a Scottish government -- 5 The economy -- 6 North Sea oil and gas - a lost opportunity -- 7 The prospects for energy supplies -- 8 The financial sector -- 9 Mortgages and pensions -- 10 The European Union and its problems -- 11 Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. THE PRESENT POSITION OF BRITISH AGRICULTURE -- PART II. AGRICULTURE AND THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS -- PART III. THE PROSPECTS FOR IMP OR TED FOOD SUPPLIES -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX -- INDEX

The purpose of this short article is to argue that measures likely to promote structural reform should be given a higher priority in British agricultural policy, and in particular that Government expenditure should be so adjusted that less emphasis is placed on protection and more on the adaptation required to fit the industry for a competitive international environment. This is a question which has been much discussed recently, and it is the aim of this article to summarise the case as it at present appears. British Policy is still too closely tied to the pattern which was devised to meet the problems of the post‐war years. It is clear to all that the present situation differs fundamentally from that which existed between 1945 and 1952. Yet measures which were designed in times of food shortage are still given great emphasis; and though farmers now realise that maximum output with little regard to cost is no longer the aim, no new objective has yet been set. In consequence one sometimes sees a rather confused mixture of measures designed to restrain the growth of output imposed on top of those which were originally intended to raise it: price subsidies are paid with one hand, while quotas or acreage restrictions are imposed with the other. This climate of confusion and uncertainty cannot help in the task of raising the industry's productivity which ought to be the primary aim. The time seems ripe, therefore, for the Government to state clearly the objectives which agriculture should be trying to meet in present circumstances and then to redesign its policy so that priority would be given to measures which are most likely to assist in their attainment.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The housing situation in Europe -- The demographic background -- Relative standards of living -- The housing stock -- Tenure -- Conclusion -- 3 Housing policy in France -- Tenure -- Owner occupation -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 4 Housing policy in Germany -- Tenure -- Subsidies to investment -- The owner occupied sector -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 5 Housing policy in the Netherlands -- Tenure -- The owner occupied sector -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 6 Housing policy in Spain -- Owner occupation -- The rented sectors -- The costs of housing policy -- Conclusion -- 7 Housing policy in Sweden -- Owner occupation -- Co-operative housing -- The private rented sector -- The public rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 8 Housing policy in Britain -- Tenure -- The owner occupied sector -- The private rented sector -- The social rented sector -- Housing allowances -- The costs of the policy -- Conclusion -- 9 The Single Market and European integration -- A European housing policy? -- European funds -- Conclusion -- 10 A single market in mortgage finance? -- The economics of the Single Market -- Implementing the Single Market -- The Single Market in operation -- Conclusions -- 11 Housing and labour mobility -- The British housing market and population movement -- Housing, planning and regional policy -- The European Union and population movement -- Conclusion -- 12 The economics of European integration