Economic disasters of the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Oliver, Michael J., Aldcroft, Derek Howard
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., [2007]
Subjects:	Financial crises. Economics > Effect of war on. Business cycles. International economic relations. Twentieth century. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Michael J. Oliver and Derek H. Aldcroft
'Destruction ... and misery' : the First World War / John Singleton
The Great Depression, 1929-33 / W.R. Garside
The Second World War as an economic disaster / Niall Ferguson
The rise, fall and rise again of OPEC / Michael Beenstock
Inflation in the twentieth century / Forrest H. Capie
Financial crises / Michael J. Oliver
Stock market crashes / Geoffrey E. Wood
The demise of the command economies in the Soviet Union and its outer empire / Steven Morewood
The fatal inversion : the African growth disaster / Derek H. Aldcroft.