and how it played out from Samuelson to today:
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/the-instability-of-moderation
Basically a capsule post-WWII economic history from his POV. Technocratic, almost Hegelian (in the sense ideas determine reality, never the other way round) until the end (when Minsky comes on), but interesting.
Michael