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Crash! : How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked /

"Most measures of the American economy over the past two centuries or so produce a jagged sine wave--"irrationally exuberant" highs leading to painful lows. Bubbles lead to panics, over and over again. Payne has written a short book on the 1920s to demonstrate to undergraduates how th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Payne, Phillip G (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: How panic spreads
  • How in the 1920s the American economy promoted speculation
  • How business culture encouraged consumer spending
  • How the market grew bullish
  • How the economy crashed
  • How the New Deal changed the financial sector
  • Epilogue: How this time is (not) different.