Edmund Dell famously quipped that Harold Macmillan got through chancellors rather as Henry VIII got through wives, though with rather less satisfaction. The key issue is whether short-term political advantage was given priority over the underlying problems of the economy.
The answer would appear to be yes…
You can read about the individual chancellors more fully here: Rab Butler, Harold Macmillan, Peter Thorneycroft, Derick Heathcoat Amory, Selwyn Lloyd and Reginald Maudling.
And the best book on the post-war chancellors of the exchequer:
RGS History 
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