tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post8728434556380615685..comments2024-03-08T15:43:20.236+00:00Comments on Keynesian Liberal: Short-termism : financial and politicalPeter Wrigleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-38222771209248616522011-04-14T17:54:18.371+01:002011-04-14T17:54:18.371+01:00Thanks for re-surfacing, Jaime. I'm pleased y...Thanks for re-surfacing, Jaime. I'm pleased you're still reading the posts and flattered that you don't find much to disagree with. I've made a list of the books you recommnend and shall make a start with P Clarke's. However, at the moment all my spare time is taken up with delivering leaflets asking for a "Yes" vote on AV. Very good for the health and keeping down the weight.<br /><br />Do let me know whan the counter-factual book is published. It sounds fascinating.Peter Wrigleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16481117156930677255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4732407426313451205.post-40905789015592854072011-04-13T09:11:18.769+01:002011-04-13T09:11:18.769+01:00Peter, belated anniversary greetings on KL's f...Peter, belated anniversary greetings on KL's first birthday. I've been reading your posts regularly, but have not as you say commented recently (nothing to disagree with?). I have been rather distracted writing a chapter for a forthcoming political counter-factual book (the third in the series edited by Duncan Brack & Iain Dale). It compares the 1931 crisis and formation of the National Government with 2010 and the Con-Lib coalition and looks especially at the role that Lloyd George might have played if he had been in better health. There are many fascinating parallels in the political and economic context of both episodes and the political arguments deployed by politicians at the time. Recommended reading for anyone wishing to explore further: P Williamson 'National Crisis and National Government: British Politics, the Economy and the Empire 1926-32'; G Stewart 'Burying Caesar: Churchill, Chamberlain and the Battle for the Tory Party'; F Trentmann 'Free Trade Nation: Commerce, Consumption & Civil Society in Modern Britain; and more specifically on the debate over the nature of the economic crisis and Keynes's contribution to the debate: P Clarke 'The Keynesian Revolution in the Making 1924-36'. I think you would find the last one especially interesting.Jaimehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16106307451408203689noreply@blogger.com