Richard S. Grossman (Professor of Economics Professor of Economics

Wrong

Nine Economic Policy Disasters and What We Can Learn from Them

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Produktbeschreibung

The industrialized world has long been rocked by economic crises, often caused by policy makers who are guided by ideology rather than cold, hard analysis. WRONG examines the worst economic policy blunders of the last 250 years, providing a valuable guide book for policy makers... and the citizens who elect them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP USA / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 144mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 414g
• ISBN-13: 9780199322190
• ISBN-10: 0199322198
• Artikelnr.: 38020747

Autorenporträt

Professor of Economics, Wesleyan University

Inhaltsangabe

* Contents
* Preface
* Prologue
* 1. Introduction
* 2. How to Lose an Empire without Really trying: British Imperial
Policy in North America
* 3. Establish, Disestablish, Repeat: The First and Second Banks of the
United States
* 4. The Great Hunger: Famine in Ireland, 1846-1852
* 5. The Krauts Will Pay: German Reparations after World War I
* 6. Shackled with Golden Fetters: Britain's Return to the Gold
Standard, 1925-1931
* 7. Trading Down: The Smooth-Hawley Tariff, 1930
* 8. Why Didn't Anyone Pull the Andon Cord? Japan's Lost Decade
* 9. The Worst Financial Crisis Since the Great Depression: The
Subprime Meltdown
* 10. I'm OK. Euro not OK?
* 11. What Have We Learned? Where Do We Go From Here?
* Bibliography