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| Titel: |
Thomas Balogh and the fight for North Sea revenue |
| Auteur: |
Morris, June |
| Verschenen in: |
Contemporary British history |
| Paginering: | Jaargang 12 (1998) nr. 2 pagina's 105-129 |
| Jaar: |
1998 |
| Inhoud: |
Thomas Balogh was Hungarian by birth. He fled to Britain in 1930 and joined the Labour party in 1943. Thereafter, in opposition and in government, he gave crucial advice on the formulation of economic policy on many fronts. In the Labour government of 1964 he was Economic Advisor to the Cabinet from 1964 to 1968 and consultant to Harold Wilson in 1969. He was given a life peerage in 1968, became Minister of State for Energy in the House of Lords from 1974 to 1975, was Deputy Chairman of the British National Oil Corporation [BNOC] from 1976 to 1978 and consultant to BNOC in 1979. Balogh's unique perspective and wide field of interest led him to a quick appreciation of the vast economic and political implications raised by the discovery of hydrocarbons in the North Sea. As the size and significance of Europe's offshore energy potential unfolded, he was to devote much of his time through the 1960s up until the late 1970s in pinpointing the inconsistencies and inadequacies of government policy on the oil and gas finds and in advocating reforms to combat the serious flaws which he believed were robbing Britain of economic benefit in the form of revenue and of other lost opportunities. |
| Uitgever: |
Routledge |
| Bronbestand: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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