The attempt to reduce the role of the state in the market through tax cuts, decreases in social spending, deregulation, and privatization—""neoliberalism""—took root in the United States under Ronald Reagan and in Britain under Margaret Thatcher. But why did neoliberal policies gain such...

The engineer economist -- The failure of postwar reconstruction -- Rueff and French economic strategy during the Depression -- The crisis of liberalism and the future of liberal capitalism in the 1930s -- L'ordre social and the war -- Reconstruction and inflation -- Keynes, the postwar "age of...

Part I. Setting the stage -- Chapter 1. Introduction and motivation / Eelke de Jong -- Chapter 2. National culture in the three types of market economies / Eelke de Jong and Annemiek Schilpzand -- Part II. Economic ideas -- Chapter 3. The morality of the market process and the normative...