"The Great Recession of 2008 restored John Maynard Keynes to prominence. After decades when the Keynesian revolution seemed to have been forgotten, the great British theorist was suddenly everywhere. The New York Times asked, "What would Keynes have done?" The Financial Times wrote of "the...

Intro -- Contents -- 1. Keynes Returns, but Which Keynes? -- 2. The Rise and Fall of Keynesian Economics -- 3. Keynes the Moral Philosopher: Confronting the Challenges to Capitalism -- 4. Keynes the Physician: Developing a Theory of a Capitalist Economy -- 5. Keynes's Ambiguous Revolution -- 6....

Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and...