Just as today\'s observers struggle to justify the workings of the Free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression.
Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most basic assumptions of our market-centered world.
Conservatives often point to Friedrich Hayek as the most influent.
The Great Persuasionis an intellectual history of that project.
Just as today\'s observers struggle to justify the workings of the Free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression