From Keynes to Piketty The Century that Shook Up Economics /

• Main Author: de Haan, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
• Subjects: Economics.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.

From Keynes to Piketty provides the reader with an accessible and entertaining insight into the development of economic thought over the past century. Starting with John Maynard Keynes's bestseller, The Economic Consequences of Peace (1919), and ending with Thomas Piketty's blockbuster, Ca...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Political and Economic Developments 1914—2014
• 2. The Great War and The Great Depression
• 3. Capitalism or Socialism; that's the question
• 4. Affluence
• 5. The Return of Neoclassical Economics
• 6. Capitalism Riding High
• 7. The Great Recession
• 8. Inequality Revisited
• Epilogue.