CONTENTS

PREFACE

ONE The Glamorous Hero

How Keynes Became Hayek’s Idol, 1919–27

TWO End of Empire

Hayek Experiences Hyperinflation Firsthand, 1919–24

THREE The Battle Lines Are Drawn

Keynes Denies the “Natural” Order of Economics, 1923–29

FOUR Stanley and Livingstone

Keynes and Hayek Meet for the First Time, 1928–30

FIVE The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Hayek Arrives from Vienna, 1931

SIX Pistols at Dawn

Hayek Harshly Reviews Keynes’s Treatise, 1931

SEVEN Return Fire

Keynes and Hayek Lock Horns, 1931

EIGHT The Italian Job

Keynes Asks Piero Sraffa to Continue the Debate, 1932

NINE Toward The General Theory

The Cost-Free Cure for Unemployment, 1932–33

TEN Hayek Blinks

The General Theory Invites a Response, 1932–36

ELEVEN Keynes Takes America

Roosevelt and the Young New Deal Economists, 1936

TWELVE Hopelessly Stuck in Chapter 6

Hayek Writes His Own “General Theory,” 1936–41

THIRTEEN The Road to Nowhere

Hayek Links Keynes’s Remedies to Tyranny, 1937–46

FOURTEEN The Wilderness Years

Mont-Pèlerin and Hayek’s Move to Chicago, 1944–69

FIFTEEN The Age of Keynes

Three Decades of Unrivalled American Prosperity, 1946–80

SIXTEEN Hayek’s Counterrevolution

Friedman, Goldwater, Thatcher, and Reagan, 1963–88

SEVENTEEN The Battle Resumed

Freshwater and Saltwater Economists, 1989–2008

EIGHTEEN And the Winner Is . . .

Avoiding the Great Recession, 2008 Onward

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

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