Wrong nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them
"WRONG examines nine of the worst economic policy blunders of the last 250 years in order to learn why these policies were adopted and how they went so wrong. Analyzing events as diverse as trade policy in the 18th century, famine relief policy in the 19th century, post-war reconstruction in the 20t...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Summary: | "WRONG examines nine of the worst economic policy blunders of the last 250 years in order to learn why these policies were adopted and how they went so wrong. Analyzing events as diverse as trade policy in the 18th century, famine relief policy in the 19th century, post-war reconstruction in the 20th century, and the subprime and sovereign debt crises in the 21st century, WRONG presents detailed post-mortem analyses of some of the world's most severe economics policy failures."--Book jacket. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 266 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199322190 (hbk.) 0199322198 (hbk.) |
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