Macroeconomics -- Macroeconomic thought during the long nineteenth century -- Gold standard, reparations, mania, crash, and depression -- Maynard ascendant -- Keynesian growth, cycles, and crisis -- The counter-revolution -- Finance -- The international dimension -- Keynesianism and the crisis

The Financial Crisis of 2008, and the Great Recession in its wake, have shaken up macroeconomics. The paradigm of the "New" Neoclassical Synthesis, which seemed to provide a robust framework of analysis for short-run macro not long ago, fails to capture key elements of the recent crisis. This...