The Great Persuasion
Subtitle: Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-05-04
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780674503762
Subjects: Economic policy; Free enterprise; Capitalism
Description: Just as economists struggle today to justify the free market after the global economic crisis, an earlier generation revisited their worldview after the Great Depression. In this intellectual history of that project, Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider the most basic assumptions of a market-centered world.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The End of Laissez-Faire
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Market advocacy in a time of crisis
pagenum: 12; label: 2
title: Entrepreneurial ideas
pagenum: 55; label: 3
title: Planning against planning
pagenum: 87; label: 4
title: New conservatisms
pagenum: 123; label: 5
title: The invention of Milton Friedman
pagenum: 152; label: 6
title: Capitalist persuasions
pagenum: 186; title: Conclusion: The Spirit of an Age
pagenum: 214; title: Notes
pagenum: 299; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 291; title: Index
pagenum: 293