Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia / Edition 1

by David Glasner

Overview

Experts define, review, and evaluate economic fluctuations Economic and business uncertainty dominate today's economic analyses. This new Encyclopedia illuminates the subject by offering 323 original articles on every major aspect of business cycles, fluctuations, financial crises, recessions, and depressions. The work of more than 200 experts, including many of the leading researchers in the field, the articles cover a broad range of subjects, including capsule biographies of leading economists born before 1920. Individual entries explore banking panics, the cobweb cycle, consumer durables, the depression of 1937-1938, Otto Eckstein, Friedrich Engels, experimental price bubbles, forced savings, lass-Steagall Act, Friedrich hagen, qualitative indicators, use of macro-econometric models, monetary neutrality, Phillips Curve, Paul Samuelson, Say's law, supply-side recessions, James Tokin, trend and random wages, Thorstein Veblen, worker-job turnover, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824009441
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/1997
Series:	Garland Reference Library of Social Science Series , #505
Pages:	796
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Selected Entries *Acceleration Principle *Agricultural Cycles *Bagehot, Walter *Bank Charter Act *Bank of France *Brunner, Karl *Bullionist Controversies *Business Cycles in Socialist Countries *Chaos and Bifurcation *Composite Indicators *Creative Destruction *Crisis of 1907 *Debt Deflation Theory *Demand for Money

Editorial Reviews

"A unique contribution to the literature of business cycles and depressions, this encyclopedia will be invaluable to students and researchers alike. Recommended for any library requiring information on business cycles." — Choice
"Particular strengths of this work are its straightforward descriptions of specific events in economic history, and biographical sketches of men and women who contributed to the inquiry into economic oscillations. The thoroughness of its entries and the comprehensive scope of its bibliograhpical references would make Business Cycles and Depressions a valuable addition to any business library." — Insights

From the Publisher

Some 325 entries explain major concepts, facts, and historical events related to business cycles, fluctuations, financial crises, recessions, and depressions. Coverage is international in scope, with material designed to be accessible to nonspecialists. Includes a chronology of major business cycles in the US, capsule biographies of leading economists born before 1920, and entry bibliographies. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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