Robert Hall was the highly respected and influential Economic Adviser to the
British government between 1947 and 1961. A former Rhodes Scholar and Oxford
don, he was appointed as Director of the Economic Section, first in the Cabinet
Office and then in the Treasury. This appointment came at a crucial time in the
development of the modern economic state, when governments were taking on
responsibility for managing the general course of the economy. This book puts a
new slant on the events of these years as well as assessing Hall's role in them.