The papers in this volume cover the following areas: Government and Industry, the Managed Economy, Monetary Policy, Fiscal Policy, Economic Forecasting and Economic Planning, and Economists in Government.

Chapter 1 Government and Industry1.Dallas Lecture to the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, 23 March, 1970.; Chapter 2 The Managed Economy1.Presidential Address delivered to Section F (Economics) at the Exeter Meeting of the British Association, on 4 September, 1969.; Chapter 3 How Can the Economy be Controlled?1.Based on a paper given at the Boston Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on 30 December, 1969.; Chapter 4 Demand Management: the Changing Background to Monetary Policy1.The first of two Wicksell Lectures, delivered in Stockholm, on 3 May, 1960.; Chapter 5 Demand Management: the Scope for Monetary Policy in a Mixed Economy1.The second of two Wicksell Lectures, delivered in Stockholm on 5 May, 1960.; Chapter 6 Demand Management: Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy1.Lecture to the 23rd International Banking Summer School at Christ Church, Oxford, on 21 July, 1970.; Chapter 7 Economic Forecasting: Preliminary Reflections1.Based on the Alfred Watson Memorial Lecture, 27 April, 1964.; Chapter 8 Economic Forecasting: Further Reflections1.Presidential address to the Royal Economic Society, 3 July, 1969.; Chapter 9 Economic Planning: the Short Term and the Long1.Tenth Anniversary Lecture to the Economic Development Institute, Washington, 6 January. 1966.; Chapter 10 The Work of an Economic Adviser1.Lecture to the Royal Institute of Public Administration, on 6 November, 1967.; Chapter 11 Economists in Government1.From Lloyds Bank Review, January 1970.;