Economics as Ideology; Keynes Laski Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics

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Economics as Ideology: Keynes Laski Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center left and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover examines how each thinker developed their ideas looks at why and how their views evolved into ideologies and draws connections between these ideologies and our contemporary political situation. Similar in age colleagues in academic life and participants in the centurys defining political events the story of Keynes Laski and Hayek is also the story of how we in the west came to define politics as the choice between government and the market between regulation and freedom and between the classes and the masses.