Recessions and depressions : understanding business cycles /
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Westport, Conn. :
Praeger,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. The facts of business cycles. Why study business cycles?
- Describing business cycles
- part 2. The macroeconomic theory of business cycles and forecasting. Early business cycle theories
- Keynes and Keynesian theory
- The Monetarist model
- The Rational Expectations model
- Real business cycle models
- New Keynesian models
- Macroeconomic forecasting
- part 3. Business cycles in the United States. The Great Depression
- Postwar business cycles in the United States
- A "new economy" in the United States?
- part 4. Modern international recessions and depressions. The East Asian crisis
- Argentina and the role of the international monetary fund
- The Great Recession in Japan
- Conclusions : what we do and do not know about business cycles.