Routledge handbook of major events in economic history - Parker, Randall E., 1960-; Whaples, Robert (New York : Routledge, 2013)
World War I and the pre-World War I era -- First and second bank of the United States / Eric Lomazoff -- The panic of 1873 / Elmus Wicker -- Gold resumption and the deflation of the 1870s / Sierre Siklos and Richard Burdekin -- Great merger wave / AnthonY O'Brien -- The panic of 1893 / Mark Carlson -- The panic of 1907 / Ellis Tallman -- The founding of the federal reserve system / Mark Toma -- World War I / Jari Eloranta -- The classical gold standard / Kris Mitchener -- The interwar era and World War II -- The 1920s / Martha Olney -- The crash of 1929 / Howard Bierman -- The British abandonment of the gold standard / Michael Kitson -- The Great Depression 1929-33 / Randall Parker -- The Great Depression, microeconomics of the new deal / Price Fishback -- The Great Depression, macroeconomics of the new deal / Lee Ohanian -- Monetary policy during the Great Depression / Jim Butkiewicz -- World War II / Robert Higgs -- Post-World War II era -- The Marshall plan / Nick Crafts -- Urban riots of the 1960s / Bill Collins -- The great inflation / Robert Hetzel -- History of oil shocks / James Hamilton -- The rise and fall of the Phillips curve in the 1960s and 1970s / Arnold Kling --The Rise and Fall of the Bretton Woods System / Barry Eichengreen -- The 1980s disinflation / Allan Meltzer -- The rise of China / Loren Brandt -- The rise of India / Areendam Chanda -- The bust and stagnation of Japan / Etsuro Shioji -- The fall of the Soviet Union / Rick Ericson -- The development of trade institutions and the advent of globalization / by Teresa Gramm -- The contemporary era -- World hyperinflations / Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus -- The financial panic of 2008 / Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick -- Monetary policy in the crisis of 2008 and beyond / W.D. McMillin -- Rise of mass market merchandisers / Art Carden -- Government bailouts / Robert Wright -- Entitlements, debt and deficits / John Seater.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic reproduction. Santa Fe, Arg.: elibro, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to eLibro affiliated libraries.
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