Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the Creation of Contemporary Politics
- ISBN-10
- 0742531139
- ISBN-13
- 9780742531130
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 329
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield
- Author
- Kenneth R. Hoover
Description
This volume explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the centre, left and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Hoover examines how each thinker developed his ideas, and why and how their views evolved into ideologies.
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