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 Chapter 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-Pèlerin 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.