About the Book`: The Economists Hour`: False Prophets, Free Markets, And The
Fracture Of Society
In this "lively and entertaining" history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New
Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of
the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution. Before the 1960s,
American politicians paid little attention to economists. But as the post-World
War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power. Binyamin
Appelbaum traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then
around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government,
unleashing corporations, and hastening globalization. Some