New from the JOTWELL legal history section:
Christopher Schmidt (American Bar Foundation and IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law)
reviews Angus Burgin,
The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Great Depression (Harvard University Press, 2012). Here's a taste:
In The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets since the Great Depression,
Angus Burgin, a historian at Johns Hopkins, offers the fascinating
story of a trans-Atlantic group of intellectuals who, beginning in the
1930s, came together in an effort to articulate and promote an
alternative vision to the then-dominant ideas of Keynesian economics.
In this short essay, I describe Burgin’s impressive contribution to the
intellectual history of modern conservatism, and then offer some
concluding thoughts on neoliberalism as a constitutional value today.
Read on
here.
