Economic Ideas in Political Time
The Rise and Fall of Economic Orders from the Progressive Era to the Global Financial Crisis
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- Author: Wesley W. Widmaier, Griffith University, Queensland
- Date Published: July 2016
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107150317
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Over the past century, the rise and fall of economic policy orders has been shaped by a paradox, as intellectual and institutional stability have repeatedly caused market instability and crisis. To highlight such dynamics, this volume offers a theory of economic ideas in political time. The author counters paradigmatic and institutionalist views of ideas as enabling self-reinforcing path dependencies, offering an alternative social psychological argument that ideas which initially reduce uncertainty can subsequently fuel misplaced certainty and crises. Historically, the book then traces the development and decline of the progressive, Keynesian, and neoliberal orders, arguing that each order's principled foundations were gradually displaced by macroeconomic models that obscured new causes of the Great Depression, Great Stagflation, and Global Financial Crisis. Finally, in policy terms, Widmaier stresses the costs of intellectual autonomy, as efforts to 'prevent the last crisis' have repeatedly obscured new causes of crises.
Read more- Provides an overview of the development of three US economic policy orders - progressive, Keynesian and neoliberal - as each spanned three parallel stages of construction, conversion, confidence and crisis
- Offers an expanded social psychological framework that speaks not only to path-dependent development but also to pathological order decline
- Equips readers with an informed, policy-based sense of the limits to macroeconomic models
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- Date Published: July 2016
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107150317
- length: 274 pages
- dimensions: 237 x 160 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.55kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Theoretical and Historical Foundations:
1. Economic ideas in political time: construction, conversion, and crisis
2. The construction, conversion, and collapse of the progressive order
Part II. The Construction, Conversion, and Collapse of the Keynesian Order:
3. Constructing the Keynesian order: breaking finance and boosting labor
4. Converting the Keynesian order: toward the neoclassical synthesis
5. Constructing the Great Stagflation: from accommodation to transformation
Part III. The Construction, Conversion, and Collapse of the Neoliberal Order:
6. Constructing the neoliberal order: breaking labor and boosting finance
7. Converting the neoliberal order: toward the New Keynesianism
8. Constructing the Global Financial Crisis: from accommodation to iteration
Part IV. Conclusions:
9. Theoretical, historical and policy implications
Bibliography
Index.
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