Crisis, austerity, and the neoliberal turn -- The architects of austerity -- The question of growth in a global economy -- Opening and closing the door on the Italian left -- The erratic march of Labour -- Global finance and the U.S. growth agenda -- Guns, butter, and gold -- Globalization,...

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

France is often described as one of the last Western economies that has not been able to reform itself in the face of globalization. Yet its economy has not fallen by the wayside, and it has even resisted the great recession that began in 2008. By interlinking historical, economic, and political...