Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures xiii
4. Preface xvii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One. History of Economic Thought
7. Introductory text 19
8. 1. The Mysteries of Money: A Short History 21
9. 2. The Fight for the Gold Standard 40
10. 3. The Quantity Theory of Money: From History to Science 60
11. 4. Theories of the Fertile and Barren State 73
12. Part Two. The Rise, Triumph and Fall of Keynes
13. Introductory text 95
14. 5. Keynes’s Intervention 99
15. 6. The Keynesian Ascendancy 137
16. 7. The Theory and Practice of Monetarism 171
17. Part Three. Macroeconomics in the Crash and After, 2007-
18. Introductory text 215
19. 8. The Disablement of Fiscal Policy 221
20. 9. The New Monetarism 248
21. 10. Distribution as a Macroeconomic Problem 288
22. 11. What Was Wrong with the Banks? 307
23. 12. Global Imbalances 331
24. Part Four. A New Macroeconomics
25. 13. Reinventing Political Economy 347
26. Notes 391
27. Bibliography 427
28. Index 461