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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.