Samuelson Friedman: The Battle over the Free Market - Couverture rigide

Wapshott, Nicholas

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393285189 ISBN 13 : 9780393285185

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 2021

Synopsis

From the author of the critically acclaimed Keynes Hayek, the next great duel in the history of economics.

In 1966 two columnists joined Newsweek magazine. Their assignment: debate the world of business and economics. Paul Samuelson was a towering figure in Keynesian economics, which supported the management of the economy along lines prescribed by John Maynard Keynes’s General Theory. Milton Friedman, little known at that time outside conservative academic circles, championed “monetarism” and insisted the Federal Reserve maintain tight control over the amount of money circulating in the economy.

In the nimble hands of author and journalist Nicholas Wapshott, Samuelson and Friedman’s decades-long argument becomes a window through which to view one of the longest periods of economic turmoil in the United States. As the soaring economy of the 1950s gave way to decades stalked by declining prosperity and “stagflation”, it was a time when the theory and practice of economics became the preoccupation of politicians and the focus of national debate. It is an argument that continues today.

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À propos de l'auteur

<strong>Nicholas Wapshott</strong>'s many books include biographies of Margaret Thatcher and Carol Reed, <em>Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics</em>, and <em>The Sphinx: Franklin Roosevelt, the Isolationists, and the Road to World War II</em>. He lives in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393285189
• ISBN 13: 9780393285185
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible