Keynes and His Critics: Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution, 1925-1946

ISBN-13: 9780197263228 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 388 str.

G. C. Peden

Opis

This authoritative history of the Treasury provides a new perspective on public policy-making in the twentieth century. It explores the role and functions of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the consequent implications for the changing role of the Treasury. As the key department in British government, the Treasury developed growing responsibility for managing the national economy and became increasingly involved in international relations from the time of the First World War. Professor Peden examines the relations between ministers and their official advisers, and the growing influence of economists in Whitehall.

Recenzje

Keynes remains a commanding figure both in the history of economic theory and in the history of economic policy, especially that pursued by the British Treasury . . . Nobody has documented the activities of the 20th-century Treasury more authoritatively than Peden, or more convincingly entered into the mentality of the Treasury knights, who arguments for resisting Keynes used to be caricatured by second-generation Keynesians as simply laughable.Keynes and His Critics, by printing their internal memoranda and minutes, allows them to speak for themselves