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    Keynes/Hayek: the clash that defined modern economics

    By Nicholas Wapshott

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    Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed 80 years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day.

    As the stock-market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims about 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, Friedrich 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 disputes between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as arguments over the virtues of the free market and government intervention rage with the same ferocity as they did in the 1930s.

    PRAISE FOR NICHOLAS WAPSHOTT

    ‘I defy anybody — Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted — to read [Wapshott’s] work and not learn something new.’ The New Yorker

    ‘With balance, understanding and clarity, Nicholas Wapshott, a New York-based English journalist and biographer, re-creates the duel between Keynes and Heyek … [T]his book is beguilingly written, well researched and cleverly argued.’ The Weekend Australian

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScribe Publications
    Release dateOct 31, 2011
    ISBN9781921942266

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      The prose is good and it is interesting learning about these pillars of 20th-century economics.