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The Quarterly Bulletin has its origins in the recommendations of the Radcliffe Committee in 1959. In this article, Sir Alec Cairncross, a member of that committee and Head of the Government Economic Service from 1964 to 1969, reviews the genesis of the Bulletin and its evolution and development over its first one hundred issues.
One hundred issues of the Quarterly Bulletin