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26Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace after 100 Years: Polemics and Policy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2023.The Economic Consequences of the Peace is one of the most famous books in the history of economic thought. It is also one of the most polemical. Published as a response to what Keynes saw as the grave errors of the Treaty of Versailles, the book predicted that war reparations and other harsh terms imposed on Germany would lead to its collapse, which in turn would lead to devastating consequences for Europe and the wider world. Predictions that we now know to have been all too accurate. Keynes's …Read more
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The return of Depression economics: Paul Krugman and the 21st century crisis of American democracyIn Richard Bourke & Quentin Skinner (eds.), History in the humanities and social sciences, Cambridge University Press. 2023.
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91The Sense of a VacuumHistorical Materialism 22 (3-4): 351-370. 2014.In response to the discussants this essay placesWages of Destructionin its historiographical context. In dialogue with Riley’s call for a reading of Nazi Germany in terms of a theory of imperialism, it calls for an account of the ‘variable geometry’ of regime-business relations. In conclusion, however, we must insist on the ‘vacuum’ of causal logic that is a defining characteristic of the history of the Nazi regime.
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87Contra Boldizzoni: Bringing “Pseudohistory” Back InJournal of the Philosophy of History 9 (1): 18-26. 2015.This response argues that though one may share Boldizzoni’s critique of conventional economics, he mischaracterizes many of those he criticizes. The pejorative label of “pseudohistory” that he applies to others, is self-defeating. As a description it might be applied to many of the more interesting facets of his own work. What cannot be conceded is the position of the innocent and detached observer he claims for the historian.
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
Areas of Interest
| 20th Century Philosophy |
| Continental Philosophy |