The Economics of the Great Depression
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Издатель | | Edward Elgar Publishing |
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Подставное лицо, Дополнительный прибывает на второй путь, Транспортный вариант, Четыре билета на ночной скорый, Свидетельство Лабрюйера
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Understanding the Great Depression is the Holy Grail of macroeconomics as Ben Bernanke (1995) has correctly claimed. Every generation of economists tries to wrap their hands around this prized chalice. My first book, Reflections on the Great Depression, contained interviews with 11 of the top economists who lived through the Depression and was an account of what we have learned from the interwar generation of economists and their crack at trying to explain the Great Depression. A historian friend of mine once told me that many times a generation has to pass before there is an honest evaluation of a particular historical epoch. Often the participants in real time have a genuine stake in how the episode is interpreted. Critical and disinterested evaluations only come about when those who lived through the time have come and gone, at least from active scholarship. This is probably true. We are now at that point in our evaluation of the economics of the interwar era. The purpose of this...Похожие книги