Lawrence H. White: The clash of economic ideas: the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years

摘要

Lawrence White (p. 8) says, "Economic policy ideas clash when their advocates have different views about the role government should play in the economy." His book does a superb job of discussing a comprehensive list of policy areas in which economic ideas have clashed in the twentieth century for just this reason. White discusses central economic planning and socialism, macroeconomic stabilization and Keynesian economics, Bretton Woods and the role of governments in the international monetary system, inflation and monetary policy, and free trade versus protectionism. The book has 15 chapters, each dealing with a specific policy area.