The protean 1940s moment in political economy

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).