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Boom-bust : house prices, banking and the depression of 2010 /
Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this well-researched account shows how, for more than 200 years, a remarkably regular 18-year cycle of boom and bust can be traced to the peaks and troughs in land prices. This exploration reveals how governments, during the upswing of the cycle, are complic...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Shepheard-Walwyn,
2010.
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| Edición: | 2nd updated ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; PART I AS SAFE AS HOUSES?; 1 Britain's Housing and the Business Cycle; 2 Banking on Failure; 3 The American State of Virtual Reality; 4 The Incredible Alan Greenspan; PART II GENESIS OF THE BOOM-BUST CYCLE; 5 Rent and the 18-Year Cycle; 6 The Patterns of History; 7 The Alchemy of Land Speculation; 8 The End of Boom Bust?; PART III ANATOMY OF THE FIRST GLOBAL CYCLE; 9 The New Economy: Selling an Anglo-American Myth; 10 Launched in the USA; 11 Gordon Brown's Magic Mantra; PART IV THE AUTOMATIC STABILISER.