Description: Introduction Part 1. The Relevance of Economics 1. Economic Theory and Contemporary Society 2. The Economics Approach to Social Questions 3. The Political Economy of Opulence 4. The Social Policy of an Opulent Society Part 2. The Keynesian Revolution, for Good or Ill 5. The General Theory After Twenty-five Years 6. Keynes and British Economics 7. The Keynesian Revolution and the Monetarist Counterrevolution 8. Cambridge in the 1950s Part 3. Economics and the Universities 9. National Styles in Economic Research: The United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Various European Countries 10. Scholars as Public Adversaries: The Case of Economics 11. The University and Social Welfare 12. Some Political and Ideological Influences on Contemporary Economics Part 4. Economics and Contemporary Problems: Inflation and Inequality 13. The Problem of Inflation 14. Some Microeconomic Observations on Income and Wealth Inequalities 15. Inequality of Income Distribution and the Poverty Problem Part 5. Economics and Contemporary Problems: World Inflation, Money, Trade, Growth, and Investment 16. World Inflation: A Monetarist View 17. Political Economy Aspects of International Monetary Reform 18. Mercantilism: Past, Present, and Future 19. The Problem of Economic Development I. Social, Political, and Economic Problems of Development II. Commercial Policy and Industrialization 20. Direct Foreign Investment: A Survey of the Issues Part 6. Economics and the Environment 21. Man and His Environment Notes Index

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