The great persuasion : reinventing free markets since the Depression / Angus Burgin.
The great persuasion : reinventing free markets since the Depression / Angus Burgin.
The great persuasion : reinventing free markets since the Depression / Angus Burgin.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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2012.
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G 2013/3239
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English
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303 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Introduction: The end of Laissez-Faire -- Market advocacy in a time of crisis -- Entrepreneurial ideas -- Planning against planning -- New conservatisms -- The invention of Milton Friedman -- Moral capital -- Conclusion: The spirit of an age.
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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
2012.
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"Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order...
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The great persuasion : reinventing free markets since the Depression / Angus Burgin.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic resource 9780674067431.
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G 2013/3239
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74VKPlr6RbwX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPlr6RbwX
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0674058135 (alk. paper)
9780674058132 (alk. paper)
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330.122
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991019792399702626
