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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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