Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction: political economy and history; Part I. Ideology and Economics from World War I to Midcentury: 1. Society as factory; 2. The economics of fascism and Nazism; 3. The politics of productivity; 4. The two postwar eras and the conditions for stability in twentieth-century Western Europe; Part II. Collective Preferences and Public Outcomes: 5. The politics of inflation in the twentieth century; 6. 'Fictitious bonds … of wealth and law': on the theory and practice of interest representation; Conclusion; Index.

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"Maier has brought together a number of his essays, illuminating a common theme with a powerful central analytical intelligence." Journal of Interdisciplinary History