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The clash of economic ideas : the great policy debates and experiments of the last hundred years /
"The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical even...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Clash of Economic Ideas interweaves the economic history of the last hundred years with the history of economic doctrines to understand how contrasting economic ideas have originated and developed over time to take their present forms. It traces the connections running from historical events to debates among economists, and from the ideas of academic writers to major experiments in economic policy. The treatment offers fresh perspectives on laissez faire, socialism and fascism; the Roaring Twenties, business cycle theories and the Great Depression; Institutionalism and the New Deal; the Keynesian Revolution; and war, nationalization and central planning. After 1945, the work explores the postwar revival of invisible-hand ideas; economic development and growth, with special attention to contrasting policies and thought in Germany and India; the gold standard, the interwar gold-exchange standard, the postwar Bretton Woods system and the Great Inflation; public goods and public choice; free trade versus protectionism; and finally fiscal policy and public debt"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 428 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139380010 113938001X 9780511998218 051199821X 9786613640994 6613640999 1139366033 9781139366038 1107229170 9781107229174 1280664061 9781280664069 1139378589 9781139378581 1139375725 9781139375726 1139377159 9781139377157 1139371738 9781139371735 |