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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| 100 | 1 | |a Grossman, Richard S. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Wrong : |b nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them / |c Richard S. Grossman. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Oxford University Press, |c 2013. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2013. | |
| 300 | |a xxi, 266 pages ; |c 22 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a How to lose an empire without really trying : British imperial policy in North America -- Establish, disestablish, repeat : the first and second banks of the United States -- The great hunger : famine in Ireland, 1846-1852 -- The Krauts will pay : German reparations after World War I -- Shackled with golden fetters : Britain's return to the gold standard, 1925-1931 -- Trading down : the Smooth-Hawley Tariff, 1930 -- Why didn't anyone pull the Andon cord? Japan's lost decade -- The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression : the subprime meltdown -- I'm ok. Euro not ok? -- What have we learned? Where do we go from here? | |
| 520 | 0 | |a "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. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Financial crises |v Case studies. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Economic policy |v Case studies. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Economic policy |x History |z United States. | |
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