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The Great Persuasion

Reinventing Free Markets since the Depression

Angus Burgin

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ISBN 9780674503762

Publication Date: 05/04/2015

320 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Angus Burgin is Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University.

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At the Bloomberg.com blog Echoes, read a piece by Angus Burgin on the nuances of Hayek’s philosophy that were lost even as he was becoming a figurehead for U.S. Republicans—and, at the Cato Institute, a response to that piece
At the Library of Economics and Liberty’s EconTalk, listen to Burgin discuss Hayek, Friedman, and the return of free market economics in the aftermath of the Great Depression
At the Huffington Post, read an in-depth discussion of The Great Persuasion’s treatment of Keynes and Hayek
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2013 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society

2013 Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2013

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