Wilhelm Röpke is best known for his decisive intellectual contributions to the economic reforms that took post-war West Germany from ruin to riches within a decade. In this informative book, Samuel Gregg presents Röpke as a sophisticated économiste-philosophe in the tradition of Adam Smith,...

The making of a public economist -- Building intellectual community -- "You can always tell a Harvard man" -- Recovery -- Keynesian conversion -- Reform I : redistribution -- Reform II : monopoly -- "Regenerated liberalism" -- War -- Peace -- The economy of the post-war world -- The good economy

Walter Lippmann was the most distinguished American journalist and public philosopher of the twentieth century. But he was also something more: a public economist who helped millions of ordinary citizens make sense of the most devastating economic depression in history. Craufurd Goodwin offers a...