Review: “Money and Government: A Challenge To Mainstream Economics” Robert Skidelsky
This is an excellent, if dry book, but it suffers in comparison to the more politically focused books reviewed above because it aims for a new understanding of Keynesian economics as an antidote to failed neoliberalism. Reading economics, even good economics, just reminds me how general economics is, how easy it is for models to be more linked to currently fashionable ideologies then the messy complexity of our real world. Still, someday perhaps economics departments may again include significant sections which are not dependent on consultancy to business and which…read more