Economics as Ideology
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Economics as Ideology

Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics

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Economics as Ideology

Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics

About this book

Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover examines how each thinker developed their ideas, looks at why and how their views evolved into ideologies, and draws connections between these ideologies and our contemporary political situation.

Similar in age, colleagues in academic life, and participants in the century's defining political events, the story of Keynes, Laski, and Hayek is also the story of how we in the west came to define politics as the choice between government and the market, between regulation and freedom, and between the classes and the masses.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface - LEFT, RIGHT, AND CENTER IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
  6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  7. 1 - Of Identity, Ideas, and Ideologies
  8. 2 - The Prewar World: Seeds of Struggle
  9. 3 - World War I: Unresolved Conflicts
  10. 4 - The Twenties: The Government and the Market in Combat
  11. 5 - The Thirties: Duel of Allegiances
  12. 6 - World War II: Destruction and Deliverance
  13. 7 - The Postwar World: Denouement
  14. 8 - The Second Half Century: From Ideas to Ideologies
  15. 9 - Developmental Turning Points and the Formation of Ideologies
  16. 10 - The Oppositional Bind of Ideology
  17. 11 - Ideology, Identity, and Contemporary Politics
  18. Notes
  19. Index
  20. About the Author