Economics as Ideology: Keynes, Laski, Hayek and the Creation of Contemporary Politics explores the lives and thought of three powerful theorists who shaped the foundations of the center, left, and right of the political spectrum in the 20th century. Noted scholar Kenneth R. Hoover examines how each thinker developed their ideas, looks at why and how their views evolved into ideologies, and draws connections between these ideologies and our contemporary political situation. Similar in age, colleagues in academic life, and participants in the century's defining political events, the story of Keynes, Laski, and Hayek is also the story of how we in the west came to define politics as the choice between government and the market, between regulation and freedom, and between the classes and the masses.

By Kenneth R. Hoover

Chapter 1 Preface: Left, Center, and Right in the 20th Century
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Of Identities, Ideas, and Ideologies
Chapter 4 The Pre-War World: Seeds of Struggle
Chapter 5 World War I: Unresolved Conflicts
Chapter 6 The Twenties: Government and the Market in Combat
Chapter 7 The Thirties: Duel of Allegiances
Chapter 8 World War II: Destruction and Deliverance
Chapter 9 The Post-War World: Denouement
Chapter 10 The Second Half-Century: From Ideas to Ideologies
Chapter 11 Developmental Turning Points and the Formation of Ideology
Chapter 12 The Oppositional Bind of Ideology
Chapter 13 Identity, Ideology, and Politics