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 th...
| Main Author: | Grossman, Richard S. |
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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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Table of Contents:
- 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?