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Subject(s)

• Economic policy [Browse]
• Economic development [Browse]
• Economic history—1945- [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-252) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction. The Case for Economic Growth. Lost Opportunities. Economics and Ideology. Economics and Politics
• 2. Economic Growth. Competitiveness. Protectionism and Free Trade. Facing International Competition. Investment and Productivity. Altering the Exchange Rate. Economics and History
• 3. The Industrial Revolution. Early Industrialisation in Europe. Nineteenth-Century Europe. US Economic History to World War I. Lessons from a Golden Age
• 4. International Turmoll - 1914-45. Europe's Disastrous Years. Boom and Slump in the USA. Keynes and the Bretton Woods System
• 5. Post-World War II. European Recovery and the Common Market. US Experience post-World War II. The Rise of Japan. The USSR and Command Economies. The Third World
• 6. The Monetarist Era. Monetarist Theory and Practice. Slow Growth in Europe. Monetarist Policies in the USA. The Tiger Economies. Booms and Slumps in the 1990s
• 7. Unemployment. Comparative Experience. Misguided Solutions.
• Supply Side Mirages. Growth and the Trade Balance. Wider Perspectives
• 8. Inflation. Devaluation and the Price Level. Leading Sector Inflation. Shocks to the System. Excess Demand. Labour Costs. Summary
• 9. The Future. Changing the Environment. Reassessing the Past. Choices for the Future.

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ISBN

0312235798 (cloth)

LCCN

00042239

OCLC

44131828

RCP

C - S

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