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Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics
Author: Nicholas Wapshott
Publisher: W W Norton
Format: Paperback
Categories: Business & Economics
Item: 0393343634
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Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed 80 years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day. As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his opposite in a little-known Austrian economics professor, Friedrich Hayek, who considered attempts to intervene both pointless and potentially dangerous. The battle lines thus drawn, Keynesian economics would dominate for decades and coincide with an era of unprecedented prosperity, but conservative economists and political leaders would eventually embrace and execute Hayek's contrary vision. From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s.
"As we face off against the Great Recession, the only book you need to understand the debate raging in the streets today: economic freedom versus government intervention. And an essential primer on the two men who shaped modern finance." --Newsweek Dec 05, 2011
Product Type | Books |
ISBN | 0393343634 |
ISBN 13 | 9780393343632 |
Weight | 0.7800 |
Pages | 400 |
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