Contents

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

List of abbreviations

pp x-x

List of contributors

pp xi-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-34

Part I - Economic ideas and political leaders

pp 35-36

1 - Utilitarian or Neo-Foxite Whig? Robert Lowe as Chancellor of the Exchequer

pp 37-61

2 - Political economy, the labour movement and the minimum wage, 1880–1914

pp 62-88

3 - Economic interpretations of war: American liberals and US entry into World War I

pp 89-112

4 - Political leadership, intellectual debate and economic policy during the second Labour government, 1929–1931

pp 113-150

Part II - The use and abuse of economic ideas: Keynes and his interpreters

pp 151-152

5 - The Labour party and Keynes

pp 153-185

6 - The Conservative party and Keynes

pp 186-211

7 - Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945–1953

pp 212-244

Part III - Economic forces and their significance

pp 245-246

8 - Where did it all go wrong? Cultural critics and ‘modernity’ in inter-war Britain

pp 247-274

9 - Moral choice and economics: British political economy in the twentieth century

pp 275-306

Index

pp 307-313