Encyclopedia Of American Recessions And Depressions 2 Volumes

Author : Daniel Leab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1030 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216046790

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Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions [2 volumes] by Daniel Leab Pdf

A riveting look at the financial cycles in American economic history from colonial times to the present day, with an eye on the similarities and differences between past and present conditions as analyzed by leading economic historians. The United States has emerged from the financial chaos of its last economic crisis, yet still very few sources place the events of the modern era within the context of financial downturns of the past. An examination of the trends and patterns of previous depressions and recessions may allow us to recognize—and avoid—the behaviors and practices that prolonged the fiscal problems of previous generations. This thought-provoking encyclopedia presents an overview of notable economic events, their causes and cures, and their social and political impact on the nation. Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions offers a comprehensive survey on the topic from the years 1783 to 1789 under the Articles of Confederation through the panics of the 19th century and the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of 2008. Written in an accessible, engaging style, the volumes contain 14 detailed essays covering each economic event and 140 entries covering various related individuals, issues, court cases, legislation, and significant events. Primary source documents, including the Specie Circular, the Embargo Act, and the National Labor Relations Act, provide relevancy to the real world and a context for key events.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Depressions
ISBN : OCLC:900788648

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Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel J. Leab
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 919 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Depressions
ISBN : 159884945X

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Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions: Great Depression to Great Recession of 2008-2009 by Daniel J. Leab Pdf

Author : David Glasner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136545276

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Business Cycles and Depressions by David Glasner Pdf

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.

Author : Daniel Leab
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781598849462

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Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions [2 volumes] by Daniel Leab Pdf

A riveting look at the financial cycles in American economic history from colonial times to the present day, with an eye on the similarities and differences between past and present conditions as analyzed by leading economic historians. The United States has emerged from the financial chaos of its last economic crisis, yet still very few sources place the events of the modern era within the context of financial downturns of the past. An examination of the trends and patterns of previous depressions and recessions may allow us to recognize—and avoid—the behaviors and practices that prolonged the fiscal problems of previous generations. This thought-provoking encyclopedia presents an overview of notable economic events, their causes and cures, and their social and political impact on the nation. Encyclopedia of American Recessions and Depressions offers a comprehensive survey on the topic from the years 1783 to 1789 under the Articles of Confederation through the panics of the 19th century and the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Recession of 2008. Written in an accessible, engaging style, the volumes contain 14 detailed essays covering each economic event and 140 entries covering various related individuals, issues, court cases, legislation, and significant events. Primary source documents, including the Specie Circular, the Embargo Act, and the National Labor Relations Act, provide relevancy to the real world and a context for key events.

Author : Carl E. Van Horn,Herbert A. Schaffner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 780 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781576076774

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Work in America [2 volumes] by Carl E. Van Horn,Herbert A. Schaffner Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of work and the workforce in the United States, from the Industrial Revolution to the era of globalization. This comprehensive two-volume reference book is the first to analyze the central role of work and the workforce in U.S. life from the Industrial Revolution through today's information economy. Drawing on a variety of disciplines—economics, public policy, law, human and civil rights, cultural studies, and organizational psychology—its 256 entries examine key events, concepts, institutions, and individuals in labor history. Entries also tackle tough contemporary questions that reflect the conflicts inherent in capitalism. What is the impact of work on families and communities? On minority and immigrant populations? How shall we respond to changing work roles and the growing influence of the transnational corporation? Work in America describes and evaluates attempts to address social and class issues—affirmative action, occupational health and safety, corporate management science, and trade unionism and organized labor—and offers the kind of comprehensive understanding needed to discover workable solutions.

Author : Gwendolyn Mink,Alice M. O'Connor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781576076088

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Poverty in the United States [2 volumes] by Gwendolyn Mink,Alice M. O'Connor Pdf

The first interdisciplinary reference to cover the socioeconomic and political history, the movements, and the changing face of poverty in the United States. Poverty in the United States: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, and Policy follows the history of poverty in the United States with an emphasis on the 20th century, and examines the evolvement of public policy and the impact of critical movements in social welfare such as the New Deal, the War on Poverty, and, more recently, the "end of welfare as we know it." Encompassing the contributions of hundreds of experts, including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, this resource provides a much broader level of information than previous, highly selective works. With approximately 300 alphabetically-organized topics, it covers topics and issues ranging from affirmative action to the Bracero Program, the Great Depression, and living wage campaigns to domestic abuse and unemployment. Other entries describe and analyze the definitions and explanations of poverty, the relationship of the welfare state to poverty, and the political responses by the poor, middle-class professionals, and the policy elite.

Author : Carl E. Van Horn,Herbert A. Schaffner
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015059566508

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Work in America [2 Volumes] by Carl E. Van Horn,Herbert A. Schaffner Pdf

The first comprehensive analysis of work and the workforce in the United States, from the Industrial Revolution to the era of globalization. This comprehensive two-volume reference book is the first to analyze the central role of work and the workforce in U.S. life from the Industrial Revolution through today's information economy. Drawing on a variety of disciplines--economics, public policy, law, human and civil rights, cultural studies, and organizational psychology--its 256 entries examine key events, concepts, institutions, and individuals in labor history. Entries also tackle tough contemporary questions that reflect the conflicts inherent in capitalism. What is the impact of work on families and communities? On minority and immigrant populations? How shall we respond to changing work roles and the growing influence of the transnational corporation? Work in America describes and evaluates attempts to address social and class issues--affirmative action, occupational health and safety, corporate management science, and trade unionism and organized labor--and offers the kind of comprehensive understanding needed to discover workable solutions. 256 A-Z entries on topics ranging from Amazon.com to income gaps and wages An impressive array of expert contributors representing labor history, labor economics, labor law, welfare and social policy, human resource management, women's history, media studies, political science, workforce development, and employment policy Extensive historiography of U.S. labor and industrial relations End-of-entry bibliographies of references for further research

Author : Gary Giroux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781440800689

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Business Scandals, Corruption, and Reform [2 volumes] by Gary Giroux Pdf

Written by an expert on financial analysis and capitalism, this book describes the widespread corruption and specific scandals that have occurred throughout history when ethically-challenged innovators and greedy scoundrels are unable to resist the dark side of corruption. Since the dawn of civilization, corruption has had a perpetual impact on the world's economies. In the modern, technology-enabled, global economy, the effects of those who manipulate free-market capitalism for their own gains regardless of methodology continue to be a problem, despite reforms instituted to attempt to discourage the most blatant practices. Business Scandals, Corruption, and Reform: An Encyclopedia contains more than 300 entries that describe the myriad aspects of corruption, business scandals, and attempts at reform, providing not only detailed information about specific accounting scandals and earnings manipulation but also a broad examination of the entire history of business corruption throughout human civilization. Reviewing all the major scandals from tulip mania in the early 17th century to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008 and beyond, the author illuminates how corrupt actors in business and the attempts to eliminate these types of abuses have been instrumental to the developing institutional framework of free-market capitalism.

Author : Rick Boulware
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438109862

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Encyclopedia of American Business by Rick Boulware Pdf

Buying, selling, budgeting, and saving are fundamental business practices that almost everyone understands on a basic level.

Author : Mr.Ayhan Kose,Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Marco Terrones
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451871326

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What Happens During Recessions, Crunches and Busts? by Mr.Ayhan Kose,Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Marco Terrones Pdf

We provide a comprehensive empirical characterization of the linkages between key macroeconomic and financial variables around business and financial cycles for 21 OECD countries over the period 1960–2007. In particular, we analyze the implications of 122 recessions, 112 (28) credit contraction (crunch) episodes, 114 (28) episodes of house price declines (busts), 234 (58) episodes of equity price declines (busts) and their various overlaps in these countries over the sample period. Our results indicate that interactions between macroeconomic and financial variables can play major roles in determining the severity and duration of recessions. Specifically, we find evidence that recessions associated with credit crunches and house price busts tend to be deeper and longer than other recessions. JEL Classification Numbers: E32; E44; E51; F42

Author : Jason Resnikoff
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252053214

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Labor's End by Jason Resnikoff Pdf

Labor's End traces the discourse around automation from its origins in the factory to its wide-ranging implications in political and social life. As Jason Resnikoff shows, the term automation expressed the conviction that industrial progress meant the inevitable abolition of manual labor from industry. But the real substance of the term reflected industry's desire to hide an intensification of human work--and labor's loss of power and protection--behind magnificent machinery and a starry-eyed faith in technological revolution. The rhetorical power of the automation ideology revealed and perpetuated a belief that the idea of freedom was incompatible with the activity of work. From there, political actors ruled out the workplace as a site of politics while some of labor's staunchest allies dismissed sped-up tasks, expanded workloads, and incipient deindustrialization in the name of technological progress. A forceful intellectual history, Labor's End challenges entrenched assumptions about automation's transformation of the American workplace.

Author : Phillip O'Hara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134734894

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Encyclopedia of Political Economy by Phillip O'Hara Pdf

This groundbreaking Encyclopedia is the very first fully-refereed A-Z compendium of the main principles, concepts, problems, institutions, schools and policies associated with political economy. Based on developments in political economy since the 1960s, it is designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to the field as well as being an authori

Author : Douglas Steeples,David O. Whitten
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313002205

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Democracy in Desperation by Douglas Steeples,David O. Whitten Pdf

The Panic of 1893 and the depression it triggered mark one of the decisive crises in American history. Devastating broad sections of the country like a tidal wave, the depression forced the nation to change its way of life and altered the pattern and pace of national development ever after. The depression served as the setting for the transformation from an agricultural to an industrial society, exposed grave economic and social problems, sharply tested the country's resourcefulness, reshaped popular thought, and changed the direction of foreign policy. It was a crucible in which the elements of the modern United States were clarified and refined. Yet no study to date has examined the depression in its entirety. This is the first book to treat these disparate matters in detail, and to trace and interpret the business contraction of the 1890s in the context of national economic, political, and social development. Steeples and Whitten first explain the origins of the depression, measure its course, and interpret the business recovery, giving full coverage to structural changes in the economy; namely, the growing importance of manufacturing, emergence of new industries, consolidation of business, and increasing importance of finance capitalism. The remainder of the book examines the depression's impact on society—discussing, for example, unemployment, birth rate, health, and education—and on American culture, politics and international relations. Placing the business collapse at the center of the scene, the book shows how the depression was a catalyst for ushering in a more modern America.

Author : Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Ayhan Kose
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475561005

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Financial Crises Explanations, Types, and Implications by Mr.Stijn Claessens,Mr.Ayhan Kose Pdf

This paper reviews the literature on financial crises focusing on three specific aspects. First, what are the main factors explaining financial crises? Since many theories on the sources of financial crises highlight the importance of sharp fluctuations in asset and credit markets, the paper briefly reviews theoretical and empirical studies on developments in these markets around financial crises. Second, what are the major types of financial crises? The paper focuses on the main theoretical and empirical explanations of four types of financial crises—currency crises, sudden stops, debt crises, and banking crises—and presents a survey of the literature that attempts to identify these episodes. Third, what are the real and financial sector implications of crises? The paper briefly reviews the short- and medium-run implications of crises for the real economy and financial sector. It concludes with a summary of the main lessons from the literature and future research directions.