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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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: The best of times
- New age economics
- Golden globe
- Competing on a violent scale
- By legislation or fiat
- Where credit is due
- Castles in Spain
- Part II: The worst of times
- Spent bullets
- The next leg down
- On Europe's shores
- Will America topple too?
- Largely contained
- Scant evidence
- The spiral
- Fish or foul
- Part III: Toward better times
- Revival or reform
- Something for everyone
- Takahashi's revenge
- Dip again
- Preventing the worst
- Stressed and stimulated
- Unconventional policy
- Part IV: Avoiding the next time
- Wall Street and Main Street
- Normalization in an abnormal economy
- Making things as difficult as possible
- Men in black
- Euro or not
- Conclusion.