Who Runs the Economy? The Role of Power in Economics /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Skidelsky, Robert (Editor), Craig, Nan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Economics.; Management science.; Economic policy.; Economics, general.; Economic Policy.

Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discu...

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Session 1: Economics and Power: Basic Models of the Relationship
• Power and Economics
• Steven Lukes
• Jonathan Hearn
• Economics as Superstructure
• Norbert Haring
• Lucas Zeise
• Economics as Science
• Nancy Cartwright
• John Bryan Davis
• Session 2: Case Studies
• The Keynesian Revolution and the Theory of Countervailing Powers
• Robert Skidelsky
• Roger Backhouse
• Neoclassical Counter-revolution and the Ascendancy of Business 1970–1990
• Daniel Stedman Jones
• Ben Jackson
• Session 3: Applications to the Present
• Economics and the Banks
• Adair Turner
• Thomas Palley
• Power and Inequality
• Jamie Galbraith
• Anthony Heath
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