Historians now debate whether Britain had a ‘managed economy' by 1939, the very term-die gelenkte wirtschaft-adopted by German economists in the 1930s to describe the Nazi economy. (Richard Overy)

Historians now debate whether Britain had a ‘managed economy' by 1939, the very term-die gelenkte wirtschaft-adopted by German economists in the 1930s to describe the Nazi economy.

Richard Overy

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