Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Randall E.

Contributor:

Whaples, Robert M.

Series:

Routledge International Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--History.

Economics - History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (472 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Handbook of major events in economic history

Place of Publication:

London : Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

Summary:

The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and how where we are today fits in this historical timeline. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date research and are written by well-known economists who are authorities on their subjects. The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History was written with the intent of presenting the professional consensus in explaining the economics driving these historical events.

Contents:

Cover

ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MAJOR EVENTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Preface

PART I World War I and the pre-World War I era

1 Symmetry and repetition: patterns in the history of the Bank of the United States

2 The banking panic of 1873

3 Gold resumption and the deflation of the 1870s

4 The Great Merger Wave

5 The Panic of 1893

6 The Panic of 1907

7 The founding of the Federal Reserve System

8 World War I

9 The classical gold standard

PART II The interwar era and World War II

10 The 1920s

11 The 1929 stock market crash

12 Britain's withdrawal from the gold standard: the end of an epoch

13 The Great Depression

14 The microeconomics of the New Deal during the Great Depression

15 The macroeconomic impact of the New Deal

16 Monetary policy during the Great Depression

17 World War II

PART III Post-World War II era

18 The Marshall Plan

19 The riots of the 1960s

20 The great inflation of the 1970s

21 Historical oil shocks

22 The 1970s: the decade the Phillips Curve died

23 The rise and fall of the Bretton Woods System

24 Disinflation, 1979-1982

25 The rise of China

26 The rise of India

27 The bubble burst and stagnation of Japan

28 The demise of the Soviet Union

29 Development of trade institutions and advent of globalization since the end of World War II

PART IV The contemporary era

30 World hyperinflations

31 The financial crisis of 2007-2009

32 Monetary policy in 2008 and beyond

33 Retail innovations in American economic history: the rise of mass-market merchandisers

34 Government bailouts

35 Government debt, entitlements, and the economy

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Parker, Randall E. Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

ISBN:

9781135080808

OCLC:

828298645