Steven G. Medema, Peter Boettke (Editors)
The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought.
Duke University Press, 2005. Annual Supplement to Volume 37: History of Political Economy. First edition. 0822366525 450 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in light blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Book is like new.
""The Role of Government in the History of Economic Thought" examines a controversial area of economic analysis: the appropriate role of government within the economic system. If the first two-thirds of the twentieth century were dominated by the active involvement of economists in government policymaking, blurring the lines between the spheres of economics and politics, then the last several decades have witnessed something of a reversion to the classical economics of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. This volume offers a comprehensive and integrated history of the evolution of the relationship between governments and economies, examining the British classical tradition, the American progressive movement, and corporatist ideology".