Walter LippmannWalter Lippmann was the most distinguished American journalist and public philosopher of the twentieth century. But he was also something more: a public economist who helped millions of ordinary citizens make sense of the most devastating economic depression in history. Craufurd Goodwin offers a new perspective from which to view this celebrated but only partly understood icon of American letters. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Chapter 1 The Making of a Public Economist | 5 |
Chapter 2 Building Intellectual Community | 36 |
Chapter 3 You Can Always Tell a Harvard Man | 56 |
Chapter 4 Recovery | 74 |
Chapter 5 Keynesian Conversion | 118 |
Redistribution | 171 |
Monopoly | 197 |
Chapter 9 War | 261 |
Chapter 10 Peace | 298 |
Chapter 11 The Economy of the Postwar World | 316 |
Chapter 12 The Good Economy | 351 |
Draft of Declaration of Principles 1936 | 373 |
Columns by Walter Lippmann | 377 |
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