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 the first full-scale study of the 194849 recession in the United States, making it the focal point of a detailed,...
After the end of the Second World War businessmen and economists throughout the world feared that the American postwar inflationary boom would end ...
