
Business Cycles
Lars Tvede(Author)
Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social Sc (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 26. July 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
360 pages
978-90-5823-137-6 (ISBN)
Description
Why do we experience business cycles? What creates them? Is it mass psychology, or phenomena in the management of business? Are the banks to blame or should we be looking to the unions and the politicians? Lars Tvede's story moves back in time to the Scottish gambler and financial genius, John Law, and then on to the distracted Adam Smith, the stockbroker Ricardo, the investment banker Thornton, the extrovert Schumpeter, the speculator Jay Gould and many others. The computer jugglers of the modern day, with giant networks of equations, try to solve the same questions that have attracted the attention of classical economists throughout the centuries. Throughout this volume, business cycle theories are used to explain actual events. Theoretical thinking has reflected the economist's own experiences of hyper-inflations, depressions, speculation orgies and liquidity squeezes. The reader can follow the narrative to discover how economists often thought that problems had been solved until new data changed the economic picture once again.
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Edition
2nd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Publishing group
Gordon and Breach
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11 s/w Tabellen
11 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
453 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-5823-137-6 (9789058231376)
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Previous edition
Lars Tvede
Business Cycles
Book
03/1997
1st Edition
Harwood Academic (Medical, Reference and Social Sc
€65.79
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