"Examines Alexander Hamilton's political economy in relation to Aristotle's classical views of economics, as presented in his Politics, and finds shared support of commerce in pursuit of a regime's or democracy's wider goals" - Provided by publisher

As the stock market crash of 1929 plunged the world into turmoil, two men emerged with competing claims on how to restore balance to economies gone awry. John Maynard Keynes, the mercurial Cambridge economist, believed that government had a duty to spend when others would not. He met his...

1. Introduction -- 2. The Importance of Hayek and Friedman to the Neo-liberal Concept of Freedom -- 3. The Neo-liberal Concept of Freedom -- 4. Spheres of Government -- 5. The Rise of Neo-liberalism and Tyranny of Corporations -- 6. The Rise of Mass Consumption -- 7.The Rise of Neoliberalism and...