Robert Leeson

"Bringing together the unique insights offered by archival evidence, this volume traces the evolution of the Anti-Keynesian movement, and studies and analyses its main proponents. With the help of first-hand documents, we are able to resolve long-running disputes and misrepresentations which may otherwise run on endlessly." "This volume contains a range of contributions from top scholars in the field which use key archival evidence to provide a comprehensive overview of the Anti-Keynesian Tradition, and its main players. This volume traces the movement by focusing on the evolution of thought within this school. The volume should be an essential companion for those interested in the Anti-Keynesian Tradition and in the evolution of economics more generally."--Jacket.

This volume examines the process by which Keynes' message got interpreted and re-interpreted and thus separated into a Left and Right political-economic stream.

Recounts the life and adventures of Robin Hood, who, with his band of followers, lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw dedicated to fighting tyranny.

"This book examines the internal dynamics of the economics profession and explores the process by which two Chicago economists, Milton Friedman and George Stigler, influenced the direction of world history in the last quarter of the twentieth century. In macroeconomics, the quantity theory was economically 'tested' against its hegemonic Keynesian rival and as a result became highly influential. But in microeconomics no comparable body of literature emerged to 'test' the theory of monopolistic competition. Friedman and Stigler both declined to be drawn into the process by which the model of perfect competition could be replaced by a general theory of microeconomics that emphasized the prevalence of market power. This book provides a context for these developments: Stigler's model of the sociology of economic knowledge and Friedman's sceptical view of the appropriate role of econometrics in economic analysis. The book also examines the way in which Friedman infuriated and captivated his Keynsian opponents. Gradually, some Keynsians began to display a more tolerant attitude towards inflation, the societal problem which facilitated the political and economic revolutions of the Thatcher-Reagan years."--BOOK JACKET.