@article{Kanbur:250013,
      recid = {250013},
      author = {Kanbur, Ravi},
      title = {THE END OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE, THE END OF HISTORY, AND THE  STRUCTURE OF SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS},
      address = {2015-03},
      number = {642-2016-43905},
      series = {WP},
      pages = {15},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {The subject of this essay is formed from three classic  pieces of writing: The End of
Laissez-Faire by John Maynard  Keynes, The End of History? by Francis Fukuyama, and
The  Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn. All  three essays were concerned
with the evolution of ideas,  with Keynes and Fukuyama additionally arguing for  the
centrality of ideas and consciousness in determining  material outcomes and government
policy. I wish to argue  that neither Kuhn’s nor Fukuyama’s “revolutionary” account  fits the
bill for the path of change in the ideas of  political economy. Rather, despite the title of his
essay,  the gradual and multilayered process described in Keynes’s  account of the
emergence and then questioning of  laissez-faire is a better guide to the likely path of  the
evolution of this key doctrine of political economy in  the coming decades.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/250013},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.250013},
}