Hall of mirrors : the Great Depression, the great recession, and the uses--and misuses--of history /
"A brilliantly conceived dual-track account of the two greatest economic crises of the last century and their consequences"--
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | "A brilliantly conceived dual-track account of the two greatest economic crises of the last century and their consequences"-- "The Great Depression and the Great Recession are the two great economic crises of the past hundred years. While there are accounts of both episodes, no one has yet attempted a sustained comparative analysis. In Hall of Mirrors, Barry Eichengreen draws on his unparalleled expertise for a brilliantly conceived dual-track account of the two crises and their consequences. Rather than telling the stories of the two crises in sequence, instead he weaves them together. He describes the two bubble-fuelled build-ups, then the onset of crisis, the subsequent financial and economic and collapse, the policy response, and finally the recovery." -- |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 512 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199392001 (hardback) 0199392005 (hardback) |