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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
