week 18 – Inter-war economic thought – lecture handout [pdf]
Primary reading
Backhouse, RE and Tribe, K (2014), economic thought and ideology in Britain, 1870-2010, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp506-528]
Backhouse, R (2002), The Penguin History of Economics, London: Penguin books [ch 10]
Chang, Ha-Joon (2014), Economics: The User’s Guide, London: Pelican books [ch 4]
Middleton, R (2014), Economic policy and management, in Floud, R, Humphries, J and Johnson, J (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain vol 2 1870 to the present, Cambridge: CUP [pp476-505]
Stewart, M (1981), Keynes and after, London: Pelican books
Background reading
Elliot, L (2016), John Maynard Keynes ‘a great economist but poor currency trader’, The Guardian, Jan 12th [see Accominotti, O and Chambers, D (2014), If You’re So Smart: John Maynard Keynes and currency speculation in the interwar years, CEPR, Sept
Monbiot, G (2008), Keynes is innocent: the toxic spawn of Bretton Woods was no plan of his, The Guardian, Nov 18th
Pierson, J (2012), John Maynard Keynes and the Modern Revolution in Political Economy, Society, v49 pp263-273
Temin, P and Vines, D (2016), Keynes and the European economy, Review of Keynesian Economics, v4 i1 Spring pp36-49
Skidelsky, R (2016), Examining Keynes’s legacy, 80 years on, The Guardian, Feb 26th
Other things
EconStories (2010), “Fear the Boom and Bust”: Keynes vs. Hayek Rap Battle, YouTube, Jan 23rd
Flanders, S (2012), Masters of money: John Maynard Keynes, BBC News – Business, Sept 17th – see uploaded episode on YouTube
Marr, A (2007), Andrew Marr’s History of Modern Britain – ep 1 Advance Britannia, BBC, May 22nd [not currently available on iPlayer]
Wikipedia entry on Hayek