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Ken Hoover will conduct an e-seminar between Monday, Dec. 8 to Friday, Dec.
19 on his book _Economics as Ideology; Keynes, Laski, Hayek, and the
Creation of Contemporary Politics_ on the Hayek-L email list.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Left, Center, and Right in the 20th Century
Of Identities, Ideas, and Ideologies
The Pre-War World: Seeds of Struggle
World War I: Unresolved Conflicts
The Twenties: Government and the Market in Combat
The Thirties: Duel of Allegiances
World War II: Destruction and Deliverance
The Post-War World: Denouement
The Second Half-Century: From Ideas to Ideologies
Developmental Turning Points and the Formation of Ideology
The Oppositional Bind of Ideology
Identity, Ideology, and Politics
>From the publisher:
"Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of
Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful
theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the
political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover
examines how each thinker developed their ideas, looks at why and how their
views evolved into ideologies, and draws connections between these
ideologies and our contemporary political situation.
Similar in age, colleagues in academic life, and participants in the
century's defining political events, the story of Keynes, Laski, and Hayek
is also the story of how we in the west came to define politics as the
choice between government and the market, between regulation and freedom,
and between the classes and the masses."
Order the book from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0742531139/ref=nosim/thefriedrhayeksc/
About Ken Hoover:
Kenneth R. Hoover is professor of political science at Western Washington
University. His previous books include The Elements of Social Scientific
Thinking, Ideology and Political Life, and The Power of Identity: Politics
in a New Key. "
Ken Hoover's email address is:
Ken.Hoover - at - wwu.edu
His web page is at:
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~khoover/
Advanced reviews:
"An important book and a fascinating, absorbing read." — G. C. Harcourt,
Jesus College, Cambridge University
"The idea is simply splendid. It does make supreme sense to construct a
history of theories of political economy in the 20th century around Keynes,
Laski, and Hayek and the three do, in fact, succeed one another in
'hegemony' as the century unfolds. Inasmuch as Keynes and Hayek were
interlocutors and rivals and duelists their relationship bears considerable
drama and the fact that Hayek appears to have had the last laugh makes for
high irony. It is a major
achievement of this volume that Hoover never loses sight of the
intellectual stakes in these debates." — James Scott, Yale University
"Economics as Ideology is a most engrossing book. It tells an important
tale of the development of economic thinking through the stories of three
giants of political economic thought. Lives intersected at the nexus of
theory and practice told in a compelling, even dramatic, narrative makes
for better reading than a novel. I kept wanting to know how it was going to
turn out--even though I knew the general contours from the start. The book
offers important background for understanding economic thinking as it has
evolved. It will be greatly prized." — Sanford F. Schram, author of Praxis
for the Poor: Piven and Cloward and the Future of Social Science in Social
Welfare
"I enormously enjoyed reading Economics as Ideology. The tradition of
parallel and interacting biography is small but distinguished. Hoover adds
a further dimension with his examination of the role of opposition, and his
investigation
of the link between social situation, individual circumstances, and
thinking." — Rodney Barker, London School of Economics
"This is a very credible work of prodigious scholarship, with frequent keen
analyses and insights, and written in a lively, attractive style." —
Kenneth Dolbeare, editor of American Political Thought
Related papers:
"IDEOLOGIZING INSTITUTIONS: Laski, Hayek, Keynes, and the Creation of
Contemporary Politics" by Kenneth Hoover, Journal of Political Ideologies,
February, 1999, 4 (1), 87-115. On the web at:
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~khoover/hkl.html
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