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Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicholas WapshottPublish date:2012-09-10Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393343632ISBN-10:393343634UPC:9780393343632Book Category:Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Economics, Economic HistoryBook Topic:TheorySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCAN2Y7V03
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, Freidrich 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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:W. W. Norton & CompanyISBN-13:9780393343632ISBN-10:393343634UPC:9780393343632Book Category:Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Economics, Economic HistoryBook Topic:TheorySize:8.10 x 5.40 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCAN2Y7V03
Wapshott, Nicholas: - Nicholas Wapshott's many books include biographies of Margaret Thatcher and Carol Reed, Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics, and The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II. He lives in New York City.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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