"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...

The power of ideas to affect policy -- Ideas and policies that created the first global economic crisis of the twenty-first century -- Reading tea leaves to "know" the future : classical theory's ideas about a capitalist system -- A penny spent is a penny earned : Keynes's ideas on a capitalist...