LSE’s leading liberal drafted the wartime framework that became Keynesian management
Evidence
Lionel Robbins, professor of economics at LSE from 1929 to 1961, was no simple doctrinaire liberal. During World War II he headed the Economic Section, the principal grouping of economists recruited to advise on the organization of the wartime economy. The policy framework that these economists devised was bequeathed to postwar governments and provided the template for “Keynesian” economic management. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 376
Categorization
- XREF: Robbins serving as architect of Keynesian state machinery complicates the simple liberalism-vs-Keynesianism binary — connects to the reader’s earlier material on the neoliberal network’s opportunistic relationship to the state. — connects to: Keynes himself was a Liberal party member — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 493; Keynes wrote the General Theory to save capitalism from fascism and socialism — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2048; War forced comprehensive state economic control that outperformed laissez-faire. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism: An Intervention, 168 (+2 more)
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 376
Broader Connections
- Keynes himself was a Liberal party member
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 493 - Keynes wrote the General Theory to save capitalism from fascism and socialism
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2048 - War forced comprehensive state economic control that outperformed laissez-faire.
#expands(0.75) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 168 - LSE represented mainstream British economics more than Oxbridge by the 1950s
#corroborates(0.70) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 402