Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-355) and index.

The glamorous hero : how Keynes became Hayek's idol, 1919/27 -- End of empire : Hayek experiences hyperinflation firsthand, 1919/24 -- The battle lines are drawn : Keynes denies the "natural" order of economics, 1923/29 -- Stanley and Livingstone : Keynes and Hayek meet for the first time, 1928/30 -- The man who shot Liberty Valance : Hayek arrives from Vienna, 1931 -- Pistols at dawn : Hayek harshly reviews Keynes's treatise, 1931 -- Return fire : Keynes and Hayek lock horns, 1931 -- The Italian job : Keynes asks Piero Sraffa to continue the debate, 1932 -- Toward the general theory : the cost-free cure for unemployment, 1932/33 -- Hayek blinks : the general theory invites a response, 1932/36 -- Keynes takes America : Roosevelt and the young New Deal economists, 1936 -- Hopelessly stuck in 6 : Hayek writes his own "general theory," 1936/41 -- The road to nowhere : Hayek links Keynes's remedies to tyranny, 1937/46 -- The wilderness years : Mont Pelerin and Hayek's move to Chicago, 1944/69 -- The age of Keynes : three decades of unrivalled American prosperity, 1946/80 -- Hayek's counterrevolution : Friedman, Goldwater, Thatcher, and Reagan, 1963/88 -- The battle resumed : freshwater and saltwater economists, 1989/2008 -- And the winner is -- : avoiding the great recession, 2008 onward.