Who Runs the Economy?

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University, UK. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes won five prizes and his book on the financial crisis, Keynes: The Return of the Master, was published in September 2010. He was made a member of the House of Lords in 1991, where he sits on the cross-benches, and was elected as a fellow of the British Academy in 1994. How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life, co-written with his son Edward, was published in July 2012. His most recent publications were as author of Britain Since 1900: A Success Story? (2014) and as editor of The Essential Keynes (2015).Nan Craig is Programme Director at the Centre for Global Studies, London, UK. She studied politics and international studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and global politics at the London School of Economics, UK.

• Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- Session 1: Economics and Power: Basic Models of the Relationship.- Power and Economics.- Steven Lukes.- Jonathan Hearn.- Economics as Superstructure.- Norbert Haring.- Lucas Zeise.- Economics as Science.- Nancy Cartwright.- John Bryan Davis.- Session 2: Case Studies.- The Keynesian Revolution and the Theory of Countervailing Powers.- Robert Skidelsky.- Roger Backhouse.- Neoclassical Counter-revolution and the Ascendancy of Business 1970–1990.- Daniel Stedman Jones.- Ben Jackson.- Session 3: Applications to the Present.- Economics and the Banks.- Adair Turner.- Thomas Palley.- Power and Inequality.- Jamie Galbraith.- Anthony Heath.-