Keynes Hayek – The Clash that Defined Modern Economics - Couverture rigide

Wapshott, Nicholas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393077489 ISBN 13 : 9780393077483

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Co., 2011

Synopsis

Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed eighty years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

I heartily recommend Nicholas Wapshott s new book, Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics.... Many books have been written about Keynes, but nobody else has told the story properly of his relationship with Hayek. Nick has filled the gap in splendid fashion, and I defy anybody Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted to read his work and not learn something new. --John Cassidy, The New Yorker

Mr. Wapshott has written an important book. It is compelling not only as a history of two distinctive thinkers and their influence, but also as a narrative of political decision-making and its underlying priorities. Underlying Mr. Wapshott s analysis are vital questions for this moment in American history: What kind of society do we want? And what do we owe to our fellow citizens and our collective future? --Nancy F. Koehn - The New York Times

In Keynes Hayek, Nicholas Wapshott sets himself the formidable task of explaining important and abstruse ideas clearly, reliably and entertainingly. He succeeds well. --Oliver Kamm, The Times

Nicholas Wapshott s Keynes Hayek is a smart and absorbing account of one of the most fateful encounters in modern history, remarkably rendered as a taut intellectual drama. Wapshott brilliantly brings to life the human history of ideas that continue to mold our world. -- --Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy

Nicholas Wapshott s Keynes Hayek is a smart and absorbing account of one of the most fateful encounters in modern history, remarkably rendered as a taut intellectual drama. Wapshott brilliantly brings to life the human history of ideas that continue to mold our world. --Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy

In Keynes Hayek, Nicholas Wapshott sets himself the formidable task of explaining important and abstruse ideas clearly, reliably and entertainingly. He succeeds well. --Oliver Kamm, The Times

Here is one reason to welcome the close attention that Hayek receives in about half of Nicholas Wapshott's book. It harnesses the author's skills as a journalist in a lucid and accessible introduction to Hayek's work. --Peter Clarke, The Guardian

In Keynes Hayek, Nicholas Wapshott sets himself the formidable task of explaining important and abstruse ideas clearly, reliably and entertainingly. He succeeds well. --Oliver Kamm, The Times

Wapshott does a good job of explaining the duo's sometimes complex theories...Overall, it's well worth a read. --Money Week

In Keynes Hayek, Nicholas Wapshott sets himself the formidable task of explaining important and abstruse ideas clearly, reliably and entertainingly. He succeeds well. --Oliver Kamm, The Times

He [Wapshott] is an acomplished writer who drives his narrative at a pace and draws judiciously on a crowded shelf of studies of his protagonists and their work...fascinating reading... --The Literary Review

Nicholas Wapshott has written an exciting book and brought to astonishing life the economics advocated by these two sharply contrasting characters. --North South

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0393077489
• ISBN 13: 9780393077483
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 400