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Who runs the economy? : the role of power in economics / Robert Skidelsky, Nan Craig, editors.

Contributor(s): Skidelsky, Robert, Baron Skidelsky, 1939- [editor.] | Craig, Nan [editor.]Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016Description: xv, 146 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781137580191; 9781137580184Note: Gift: Lord Skidelsky. Title page inscribed by him.Subject(s): Power (Social sciences) | Economic history -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 330
Contents:
Introduction / Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig -- part 1. Economics and power: basic models of the relationship. Power and economics / Steven Lukes and Jonathan Hearn -- Economics as superstructure / Norbert Häring and Lucas Zeise -- Economics as science / Nancy CArtwright and John Bryan Davis -- part 2. Case studies. The Keynesian revolution and the theory of countervailing powers / Robert Skidelsky and Roger Backhouse -- The neoclassical counter-revolution and the ascendancy of business / Daniel Stedman Jones and Ben Jackson -- part 3. Applications to the present. Economics and the banks / Adair Turner -- Financialization vs. efficient markets: reframing the economics and politics of finance / Thomas Palley -- Power and inequality / James K. Galbraith and Anthony Heath -- Index.
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"The symposium 'Power and economics" took place over four sessions in London on 23 March 2015 ... The following essays arose from the presenations given..."--Page v.

Introduction / Robert Skidelsky and Nan Craig -- part 1. Economics and power: basic models of the relationship. Power and economics / Steven Lukes and Jonathan Hearn -- Economics as superstructure / Norbert Häring and Lucas Zeise -- Economics as science / Nancy CArtwright and John Bryan Davis -- part 2. Case studies. The Keynesian revolution and the theory of countervailing powers / Robert Skidelsky and Roger Backhouse -- The neoclassical counter-revolution and the ascendancy of business / Daniel Stedman Jones and Ben Jackson -- part 3. Applications to the present. Economics and the banks / Adair Turner -- Financialization vs. efficient markets: reframing the economics and politics of finance / Thomas Palley -- Power and inequality / James K. Galbraith and Anthony Heath -- Index.

Gift: Lord Skidelsky. Title page inscribed by him.

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