Ideas, Institutions, and Policy

Source: Students For Liberty
by Samrudha Surana

“Lawrence H. White’s 2012 book The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years focuses on the major intellectual debates of the 20th century, particularly the conflict between socialism and capitalism as competing political-economic systems for organizing society. The central questions explored in this book are whether and how ideas influence policy changes. Both Keynes’s ‘academic scribblers’ and Hayek’s ‘intellectuals’ are portrayed as shaping the thinking of those in positions of authority.” (06/10/25)

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