American Business Cycles 1945-50

ISBN-13: 9780415759243 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015

Conrad Blyth

Opis

After the end of the Second World War businessmen and economists throughout the world feared that the American postwar inflationary boom would end in a serious slump. The slump took a long time to come, and when it did appear in 1949 it was both mild and short lived. In its mildness and brevity it foreshadowed the American business recessions since that time and, indeed, may foreshadow the end of the business cycle as it has been known in the past. This book presents a full-scale study of the 1948-49 recession in the United States, making it the focal point of a detailed, analytical account of American business fluctuations from the end of the Second World War until the beginning of the Korean War.

Spis treści

Contents  Preface  Note on References, Abbreviations and Statistical Sources and Conventions 1. The American Business Cycle 1945 to 1967 2. Legacies of Depression and War 3. Reconstruction 1945 to 1947 4. Sources of Growth and Changes 1947 to 1950 5. Inflation, Deflation and the Impact of Government 6. Output and Inventory Investment 1947 to 1950 7. A Model of the 1948–49 Recession and Revival  Epilogue  Notes  Bibliographical Note  List of References  Index

O autorze

Dr. Blyth held the post of  Director of the New Zealand Institute of Economic Research and as author of The Use of Economic Statistics and Deputy Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in London. Previously he lectured at Cambridge. He has devoted, several years to the study of the American economy, and this book was completed while he was a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University.