Introduction / Ewen Green and Duncan Tanner -- pt. I. Economic ideas and political leaders -- 1. Utilitarian or neo-foxite whig? Robert Lowe as Chancellor of the Exchequer / Boyd Hilton -- 2. Political economy, the labour movement and the minimum wage, 1880-1914 / James Thompson -- 3. Economic interpretations of war : American liberals and US entry into World War I / John A. Thompson -- 4. Political leadership, intellectual debate and economic policy during the second Labour government, 1929-1931 / Duncan Tanner -- pt. II. The use and abuse of economic ideas : Keynes and his interpreters -- 5. The Labour party and Keynes / Richard Toye -- 6. The Conservative party and Keynes / Ewen Green -- 7. Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945-1953 / Eugenio Biagini -- pt. III. Economic forces and their significance -- 8. Where did it all go wrong? Cultural critics and 'modernity' in inter-war Britain / Stefan Collini -- 9. Moral choice and economics : British political economy in the twentieth century / Barry Supple
Summary
This edited work examines the imperatives that have helped to shape political values. An extensive introduction places the essays in the context of a broad but little-studied approach to history. Essays are featured by leading economic and intellectual historians
