Economics as Ideology
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Economics as Ideology
| Full title | Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics |
|---|---|
| Author | Kenneth R. Hoover |
| Published | 2003 |
| Pages | 336 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Kenneth Hoover’s three intertwined intellectual biographies — Keynes, Laski and Hayek — told as one story, arguing that managed capitalism, democratic socialism and market liberalism were built by these contemporaries out of their own circumstances and temperaments as much as out of economic analysis. |
Economics as Ideology
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, entry 37 of section IV (Value Investing, Finance, and Capitalism), within a few entries of Hayek and Schumpeter. Cited as Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Li Lu — the Himalaya Capital founder who assembled it.
- John Maynard Keynes — one of the three subjects.
- The Road to Serfdom — Hayek’s own statement of the case, entry 36 on the same list, one place ahead of this book.
- Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy — Schumpeter, two entries later on the list, arguing the same period from a fourth position.
- Liberalism — one of the three traditions traced.
- Socialism — Laski’s, the third and now least-read of them.
What links here
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