Andres Solimano

A History of Big Recessions in the Long Twentieth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Its wide geographic and historical coverage of episodes in North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia will appeal to scholars and students of economics and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 153mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9781108719131
• ISBN-10: 1108719139
• Artikelnr.: 57017615

Autorenporträt

Andrés Solimano is Founder and Chairman of the International Center for Globalization and Development (CIGLOB). His most recent books include Global Capitalism in Disarray: Inequality, Debt, and Austerity (2017); Pensiones a la Chilena (2017); Economic Elites, Crises, and Democracy (2014); and International Migration in the Age of Crisis and Globalization (Cambridge, 2010).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Recessions and depressions: an overview of theories and empirics
3. World War I, hyperinflation in the 1920s and World War II
4. The Great Depression of the 1930s
5. Stagflation in the 1970s, globalization and the financial crisis of 2008-9
6. Two depressions in the early twenty-first century: the cases of Latvia and Greece
7. Soviet-type of socialism and the post-socialist transition
8. Economic crises in Latin America and East Asia
9. Synthesis and interpretation.