Adjusting to global economic change the dangerous road ahead
The author combines macroeconomic history with a brief exposition of economic theory that stems from and explains that history and explores how that experience may apply to the future. He examines the Great Depression, World War II and the following prosperous quarter century, the stagflation and re...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Santa Monica, CA :
Rand
2009.
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| Series: | Occasional paper (Rand Corporation) ;
OP-243-RPC. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423740106719 |
| Summary: | The author combines macroeconomic history with a brief exposition of economic theory that stems from and explains that history and explores how that experience may apply to the future. He examines the Great Depression, World War II and the following prosperous quarter century, the stagflation and recovery of the 1970s and 1980s, the information technology boom that lasted through the 1990s, and the current economic crisis. In most macroeconomic crises, the worst case--depression or inflation--is fairly clear, and modern policymakers have the tools at hand to cope. He warns that the worst case |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (31 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781282451254 9786612451256 9780833048639 |
