Clash of Economic Ideas The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years

Name: Clash of Economic Ideas The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years
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ISBN: 9781107621336

ISBN-10: 110762133X

ISBN-13: 9781107621336

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lawrence H. White

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The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical events to debates among economists, and from the ideas of academic writers to major experiments in economic policy. The treatment offers fresh perspectives on laissez faire, socialism and fascism; the Roaring Twenties, business cycle theories and the Great Depression; Institutionalism and the New Deal; the Keynesian Revolution; and war, nationalization and central planning. After 1945, the work explores…

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List price: $77.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.82" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Turn Away from Laissez-Faire



The Bolshevik Revolution and the Socialist Calculation Debate



The Roaring Twenties and Austrian Business Cycle Theory



The New Deal and Institutionalist Economics



The Great Depression and Keynes's General Theory



The Second World War and Hayek's Road to Serfdom



Postwar British Socialism and the Fabian Society



The Mont Pelerin Society and the Rebirth of Smithian Economics



The Postwar German "Wonder Economy" and Ordoliberalism



Indian Planning and Development Economics



Bretton Woods and International Monetary Thought



The Great Inflation and Monetarism



The Growth of Government: Public Goods and Public Choice



Free Trade, Protectionism, and Trade Deficits



From Pleasant Deficit Spending to Unpleasant Sovereign Debt Crisis


Index