Ewen Green was a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Duncan Tanner is Professor of History and Director of the Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs at the University of Wales, Bangor.

• Abbreviations; Notes on contributors; Introduction Ewen Green and Duncan Tanner; Part I. Economic Ideas and Political Leaders: 1. Utilitarian or neo-Foxite Whig? Robert Lowe as Chancellor of the Exchequer Boyd Hilton; 2. Political economy, the Labour movement and the minimum wage James Thompson; 3. Economic interpretations of war: American liberals and US entry into World War I John A. Thompson; 4. Political leadership, intellectual debate and economic policy during the Second Labour Government 1929–31 Duncan Tanner; Part II. The Use and Abuse of Economic Ideas: Keynes and his Interpreters: 5. The Labour party and Keynes Richard Toye; 6. The Conservative party and Keynes Ewen Green; 7. Keynesian ideas and the recasting of Italian democracy, 1945–53 Eugenio Biagini; Part III. Economic Forces and their Significance: 8. Where did it all go wrong? Cultural critics and 'modernity' in inter-war Britain Stefan Collini; 9. Moral choice and economics: British political economy in the twentieth century Barry Supple.

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