The strange survival of liberal England political leaders, moral values and the reception of economic debate
It is often assumed that politicians are swept along by global forces and influences, without the power - or the desire - to shape events. By contrast, this book is concerned with the way that cultural values, individual moral sentiments and politicians' interpretation of economic and other imp...
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Cambridge University Press
2007
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction / Ewen Green and Duncan Tanner
- pt. I. Economic ideas and political leaders
- 1. Utilitarian or neo-foxite whig? Robert Lowe as Chancellor of the Exchequer / Boyd Hilton
- 2. Political economy, the labour movement and the minimum wage, 1880-1914 / James Thompson
- 3. Economic interpretations of war : American liberals and US entry into World War I / John A. Thompson
- 4. Political leadership, intellectual debate and economic policy during the second Labour government, 1929-1931 / Duncan Tanner
- pt. II. The use and abuse of economic ideas : Keynes and his interpreters
- 5. The Labour party and Keynes / Richard Toye
- 6. The Conservative party and Keynes / Ewen Green
- 7. Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945-1953 / Eugenio Biagini
- pt. III. Economic forces and their significance
- 8. Where did it all go wrong? Cultural critics and 'modernity' in inter-war Britain / Stefan Collini
- 9. Moral choice and economics : British political economy in the twentieth century / Barry Supple