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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163917603321

Autore

Widmaier Wesley

Titolo

Economic ideas in political time : the rise and fall of economic orders from the progressive era to the global financial crisis / / Wesley W. Widmaier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2016

ISBN

1-316-78953-5

1-316-79241-2

1-316-79289-7

1-316-79337-0

1-316-79529-2

1-316-79385-0

1-316-57691-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

POL023000

Disciplina

330.1

Soggetti

Economic history

Economic policy

Economic development

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jul 2016).

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past century, the rise and fall of economic policy orders has been shaped by a paradox, as intellectual and institutional stability have repeatedly caused market instability and crisis. To highlight such dynamics, this volume offers a theory of economic ideas in political time. The author counters paradigmatic and institutionalist views of ideas as enabling self-reinforcing path dependencies, offering an alternative social psychological argument that ideas which initially reduce uncertainty can subsequently fuel misplaced certainty and crises. Historically, the book then traces the development and decline of the progressive, Keynesian, and neoliberal orders, arguing that each order's principled foundations were gradually displaced by



macroeconomic models that obscured new causes of the Great Depression, Great Stagflation, and Global Financial Crisis. Finally, in policy terms, Widmaier stresses the costs of intellectual autonomy, as efforts to 'prevent the last crisis' have repeatedly obscured new causes of crises.