Key primary texts for a seminar:
- James Burnham, The Managerial Revolution (1941).
- Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942).
- Clare Boothe Luce, “A Luce Forecast for a Luce Century” (1942)
- Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, "Problems of Industrialisation of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe" (1943).
- Michael Kalecki, "Political Aspects of Full Employment" (1943).
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (1943).
- Rose Wilder Lane, The Discovery of Freedom (1943).
- Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine (1943).
- Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944).
- Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (1944).
- David Lilienthal, TVA: Democracy on the March (1944).
- Thakurdas, et al., A Brief Memorandum Outlining a Plan of Economic Development for India (1944).
- William Beveridge, Full Employment in a Free Society (1944).
- Vannevar Bush, Science—The Endless Frontier (1945).
- Peter Drucker, Concept of the Corporation (1946).
- George Orwell, "James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution" (1946).
- Lawrence Klein, The Keynesian Revolution (1947).
- Paul Samuelson, Foundations of Economic Analysis, 1st ed. (1947), p. 203-228.
- Lemuel Boulware, "Salvation is Not Free" (1949).
Secondary Sources
- Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free Markets Since the Great Depression (Harvard, 2012).
- Beatrice Cherrier, "The lucky consistency of Milton Friedman’s science and politics, 1933-1963." Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most Powerful Economics Program (2011): 335-67.
- Derrick Chong, "The relevance of management to society: Peter Drucker's oeuvre from the 1940s and 1950s." Journal of Management History 19.1 (2013): 55-72.
- Marion Fourcade, Economists and societies: Discipline and profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s (Princeton, 2009).
- John Ikenberry, "The Political Origins of Bretton Woods" (1993)
- Daniel Immerwahr, "Polanyi in the United States: Peter Drucker, Karl Polanyi, and the Midcentury Critique of Economic Society." Journal of the History of Ideas 70.3 (2009): 445-466.
- Philip Mirowski, "Economics, science, and knowledge: Polanyi vs. Hayek." Tradition and Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical 25.1 (1998): 29-42.
- Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard, 2018).
- Robert M. Solow, "How Did Economics Get That Way and What Way Did It Get?" Daedalus 126.1 (Winter, 1997), pp. 39-58.
- Daniel Stedman-Jones, Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics (Princeton, 2012).
- E.R. Weintraub, How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (Duke, 2002).
