Chapter 1 Preface: Left, Center, and Right in the 20th Century Chapter 2 Acknowledgements Chapter 3 Of Identities, Ideas, and Ideologies Chapter 4 The Pre-War World: Seeds of Struggle Chapter 5 World War I: Unresolved Conflicts Chapter 6 The Twenties: Government and the Market in Combat Chapter 7 The Thirties: Duel of Allegiances Chapter 8 World War II: Destruction and Deliverance Chapter 9 The Post-War World: Denouement Chapter 10 The Second Half-Century: From Ideas to Ideologies Chapter 11 Developmental Turning Points and the Formation of Ideology Chapter 12 The Oppositional Bind of Ideology Chapter 13 Identity, Ideology, and Politics
Kenneth R. Hoover is professor of political science at Western Washington University. His previous books include The Elements of Social Scientific Thinking, Ideology and Political Life, and The Power of Identity: Politics in a New Key.
In this well-written and amply researched and documented volume,
Hoover analyzes the lives and motives of three giants on the world
stage in the last century: John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, and
Frederick Hayek. Hoover deftly examines the contrasting ideologies
of these major 20th-century figures and the essence of their
contributions and impact on contemporary politics and economics.
Highly recommended.
*CHOICE*
This is a very credible work of prodigious scholarship, with
frequent keen analyses and insights, and written in a lively,
attractive style.
*Kenneth Dolbeare, editor of American Political Thought*
An important book and a fascinating, absorbing read.
*G. C. Harcourt, Jesus College, Cambridge University*
I enormously enjoyed reading Economics as Ideology. The tradition
of parallel and interacting biography is small but distinguished.
Hoover adds a further dimension with his examination of the role of
opposition, and his investigation of the link between social
situation, individual circumstances, and thinking.
*Rodney Barker, London School of Economics*
Economics as Ideology is a most engrossing book. It tells an
important tale of the development of economic thinking through the
stories of three giants of political economic thought. Lives
intersected at the nexus of theory and practice told in a
compelling, even dramatic, narrative makes for better reading than
a novel. I kept wanting to know how it was going to turn out—even
though I knew the general contours from the start. The book offers
important background for understanding economic thinking as it has
evolved. It will be greatly prized.
*Sanford F. Schram, Author of Praxis for the Poor: Piven and
Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social Welfare*
The idea is simply splendid. It does make supreme sense to
construct a history of theories of political economy in the 20th
century around Keynes, Laski, and Hayek and the three do, in fact,
succeed one another in 'hegemony' as the century unfolds. Inasmuch
as Keynes and Hayek were interlocutors and rivals and duelists
their relationship bears considerable drama and the fact that Hayek
appears to have had the last laugh makes for high irony. It is a
major achievement of this volume that Hoover never loses sight of
the intellectual stakes in these debates.
*James Scott, Yale University*
A rich portrait of the politics and intellectual life of Great
Britain (and to a lesser extent, the United States) during the
formative events of the century, and these chapters serve as a good
general introduction to the ideas of these three men. A useful read
for historians of economics and economic thought, as well as those
with an interest in the development of political thought in the
twentieth century.
*H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online*
Economics as Ideology is, in short, popular intellectual history at
a high level. For those seeking both an engaging review of the
economic ideas that shaped much of the history of the twentieth
century and short biographies of three principals in formulating
and advancing these ideas, it is an enlightening and illuminating
work.
*Journal of Markets & Morality*
This is a valuable book, the subject of which is the grand sweep of
twentieth-century British economic ideology from the standpoint of
its crucial historical and biographical contexts. It will have
particular significance for social scientists studying this subject
or period in British history.
*Journal of British Studies*
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