Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia

Author:   David Glasner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:  

9780824009441


Pages:   796
Publication Date:   01 January 1997
Format:   Hardback
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Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia


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Experts define, review, and evaluate economic fluctuations Economic and business uncertainty dominate today's economic analyses. This new Encyclopedia illuminates the subject by offering 323 original articles on every major aspect of business cycles, fluctuations, financial crises, recessions, and depressions. The work of more than 200 experts, including many of the leading researchers in the field, the articles cover a broad range of subjects, including capsule biographies of leading economists born before 1920. Individual entries explore banking panics, the cobweb cycle, consumer durables, the depression of 1937-1938, Otto Eckstein, Friedrich Engels, experimental price bubbles, forced savings, lass-Steagall Act, Friedrich hagen, qualitative indicators, use of macro-econometric models, monetary neutrality, Phillips Curve, Paul Samuelson, Say's law, supply-side recessions, James Tokin, trend and random wages, Thorstein Veblen, worker-job turnover, and more.

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Author:   David Glasner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Garland Publishing Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.630kg
ISBN:  

9780824009441


ISBN 10:   0824009444
Pages:   796
Publication Date:   01 January 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Selected Entries *Acceleration Principle *Agricultural Cycles *Bagehot, Walter *Bank Charter Act *Bank of France *Brunner, Karl *Bullionist Controversies *Business Cycles in Socialist Countries *Chaos and Bifurcation *Composite Indicators *Creative Destruction *Crisis of 1907 *Debt Deflation Theory *Demand for Money

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A unique contribution to the literature of business cycles and depressions, this encyclopedia will be invaluable to students and researchers alike. Recommended for any library requiring information on business cycles. <br>-Choice <br> Particular strengths of this work are its straightforward descriptions of specific events in economic history, and biographical sketches of men and women who contributed to the inquiry into economic oscillations. The thoroughness of its entries and the comprehensive scope of its bibliograhpical references would make Business Cycles and Depressions a valuable addition to any business library. <br>-Insights <br>


A unique contribution to the literature of business cycles and depressions, this encyclopedia will be invaluable to students and researchers alike. Recommended for any library requiring information on business cycles. -- Choice Particular strengths of this work are its straightforward descriptions of specific events in economic history, and biographical sketches of men and women who contributed to the inquiry into economic oscillations. The thoroughness of its entries and the comprehensive scope of its bibliograhpical references would make Business Cycles and Depressions a valuable addition to any business library. -- Insights


A unique contribution to the literature of business cycles and depressions, this encyclopedia will be invaluable to students and researchers alike. Recommended for any library requiring information on business cycles. -Choice Particular strengths of this work are its straightforward descriptions of specific events in economic history, and biographical sketches of men and women who contributed to the inquiry into economic oscillations. The thoroughness of its entries and the comprehensive scope of its bibliograhpical references would make Business Cycles and Depressions a valuable addition to any business library. -Insights


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