Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

ISBN-13: 9780367866204 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 456 str.

Randall Parker; Robert Whaples

Opis

The purpose of The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History is to provide readers with a relative brief and cogent explanation of the major occurrences in the field: charting economic history from the nineteenth to twenty first centuries.

The book contains a host of pithy but comprehensive essays written by top schol

Spis treści

Part 1: World War I and the Pre-World War I Era  1. First and Second Bank of the United States Eric Lomazoff  2. The Panic of 1873 Elmus Wicker  3. Gold Resumption and the Deflation of the 1870s Pierre Siklos and Richard Burdekin  4. Great Merger Wave Anthony O’Brien  5. The Panic of 1893 Mark Carlson  6. The Panic of 1907 Ellis Tallman  7. The Founding of the Federal Reserve System Mark Toma  8. World War I Jari Eloranta  9. The Classical Gold Standard Kris Mitchener  Part 2: The Interwar Era and World War II  10. The 1920s Martha Olney  12. The Crash of 1929 Howard Bierman  13. The British Abandonment of the Gold Standard Michael Kitson  14. The Great Depression 1929-33 Randall Parker  14. The Great Depression, Microeconomics of the New Deal Price Fishback  15. The Great Depression, Macroeconomics of the New Deal Lee Ohanian  16. Monetary Policy during the Great Depression Jim Butkiewicz  17. World War II Robert Higgs  Part 3: Post-World War II Era  18. The Marshall Plan Nick Crafts  19. Urban Riots of the 1960s Bill Collins  20. The Great Inflation Robert Hetzel  21. History of Oil Shocks James Hamilton  22. The Rise and Fall of the Phillips Curve in the 1960s and 1970s Arnold Kling  23. The Rise and Fall of the Bretton Woods System Barry Eichengreen  24. The 1980s Disinflation Allan Meltzer  25. The Rise of China Loren Brandt  26. The Rise of India Areendam Chanda  27. The Bust and Stagnation of Japan Etsuro Shioji  28. The Fall of the Soviet Union Rick Ericson  29. The Development of Trade Institutions and th

O autorze

Randall E. Parker is Professor of Economics at East Carolina University, USA.

Robert Whaples is Professor of Economics at Wake Forest University, USA. .