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Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics Audiobook, by Robert Skidelsky Play Audiobook Sample

Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics Audiobook

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Read By: John Lescault, John Lescault Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 10.83 hours at 1.5x Speed 8.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: September 2018 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781982544737

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

108

Longest Chapter Length:

38:03 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

25 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

09:01 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

A critical examination of economics’ past and future, and how it needs to change, by one of the most eminent political economists of our time

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only a minor role in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best left to the “invisible hand” of the market. Yet these claims remain staunchly unsettled. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty makes money and government essential features of any market economy.

Since Adam Smith, classical economics has espoused non-intervention in markets. The Great Depression brought Keynesian economics to the fore; but stagflation in the 1970s brought a return to small-state orthodoxy. The 2008 global financial crash should have brought a reevaluation of that stance; instead the response has been punishing austerity and anemic recovery. This book aims to reintroduce Keynes’s central insights to a new generation of economists, and embolden them to return money and government to the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve.

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“The essential Keynes cannot be sketched in a chart or mechanized…But Robert Skidelsky has done us a service by putting it in a handy book.”

— Times Literary Supplement (London)

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About Robert Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of many books, most notably a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, and was made a life peer of the House of Lords in 1991.

About the Narrators

John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.

John Lescault, a native of Massachusetts, is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. He lives in Washington, DC, where he works in theater.