The Eclipse of Keynesianism: The Political Economy of the Chicago Counter-Revolution

This book examines the process by which Keynesianism, with its sympathetic view of the role of government in the economy and society, lost influence amongst economists and policy makers and was replaced by more negative views about government intervention and more positive views about the role of the market as a social organiser.

ROBERT LEESON is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Murdoch University. He has held visiting positions at Cambridge University, the London School of Economics and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published widely in journals such as the Economic Journal, Economica, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Urban Studies and the History of Political Economy.