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The great inflation and its aftermath : the past and future of American affluence / Robert J. Samuelson.
Lippincott Library HG540 .S26 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Samuelson, Robert J.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inflation (Finance)--United States.
- Inflation (Finance).
- United States.
- United States--Economic policy.
- Economic policy.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- Economic conditions.
- Economic history.
- Physical Description:
- xxxii, 316 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [2010]
- Summary:
- Samuelson contents we have not yet escaped the boom-and-bust cycles common in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Prolonged prosperity triggered the economic and financial collapse of 2008 and 2009 by making Americans overconfident, complacent, and careless.
- Contents:
- The lost history
- The "full employment" obsession
- The money connection
- A compact of conviction
- Capitalism restored
- Precarious prosperity
- The future of affluence.
- Notes:
- "Revised and updated, with a new introduction by the author"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812980042
- 0812980042
- OCLC:
- 326533784
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