Major recessions : Britain and the world, 1920-1995 /
"In the twentieth century there have been five major recessions: two in the interwar period, and three more starting in 1973, 1979, and 1989. This book focuses on events in the UK, but sets them in their international context, and makes frequent comparisons with other countries. Major recession...
| Основен автор: | Dow, J. C. R. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Print version::
Major recessions. |
Съдържание:
- ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""1 Introduction""; ""1.1 The aims and methods of the study""; ""1.2 The plan and character of the book""; ""PART I: Prior Assumptions and Methodological Preliminaries""; ""2 The Facts to be Explained""; ""2.1 Conspectus of the whole period, 1920�95""; ""2.2 The measurement of trends and fluctuations""; ""2.3 Comparison of the three main phases since 1920 in the UK and other countries""; ""2.4 Profits, factor shares, and real wages""; ""3 The Causal Structure of the Economy""
- ""3.1 The main routes of causation in the economy""""3.2 How growing supply creates growing demand""; ""3.3 The explanation of unemployment""; ""3.4 Implications for later chapters""; ""Appendix A3.1 The theoretical debate on the features of the economic system that allow the possibility of unemployment""; ""Appendix A3.2 The High Real Wage theory of unemployment""; ""4 Supply and Demand Influences on the Rate of Growth""; ""4.1 Some main facts about rates of growth""; ""4.2 Explanations of variations in the rate of growth""
- ""4.3 Conclusions about rates of growth: supply versus demand factors as determinents of output growth""""Appendix A4.1 Notes on growth accounting, and two other studies of growth""; ""Appendix A4.2 Estimates of the growth of six countries' output and exports of manufactures, 1870�1970""; ""5 Shocks and Responses in Major Fluctuations""; ""5.1 The economy's response to shocks""; ""5.2 Indicators of demand shocks and tests of their ability to explain fluctuations""; ""5.3 The causation of fluctuations: a first survey""; ""Appendix A5 New estimates of fiscal policy impact""
- ""PART II: Case Studies of Five Major Recessions""""6 The Two Interwar Recessions""; ""6.1 Overview of the interwar period""; ""6.2 The 1920�1 recession and its aftermath""; ""6.3 The Great Depression: the world and the United States, 1929�33""; ""6.4 The world depression and the UK depression""; ""6.5 Economic recovery in Britain, 1932�40""; ""6.6 Theoretical conclusions""; ""Appendix A6.1 A critique of Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States""; ""Appendix A6.2 The gold standard as a cause of the Great Depression: a critique of Eichengreen's Golden Fetters""
- ""Appendix A6.3 A model of the international transmission of the US Depression""""Appendix A6.4 List of statistical sources""; ""7 The Long Interval without Major Recession, 1945�73""; ""7.1 Overview of the period""; ""7.2 Reasons for faster growth and high demand""; ""7.3 Minor fluctuations of the period""; ""7.4 Was the Golden Age doomed anyway?""; ""7.5 The behaviour of the economy: conclusions from the 1945�73 experience""; ""8 The Two OPEC Recessions (1973�5 and 1979�82)""; ""8.1 Background issues: political developments and the oil price shocks""