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Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of Social Science)
 
 
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Business Cycles and Depressions: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) [Hardcover]

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January 1, 1997 Garland Reference Library of Social Science (Book 505)
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.

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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.
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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.
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Born in New York City, Moses Abramovitz received a B.A. from Harvard in 1932 and a Ph.D. from Columbia in 1939. Read the first page
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monetary equilibrium theories, oversaving theories, money causes income, disproportionality theory, intrinsic dividend value, overinvestment theories, aggregate monetary demand, monitoring growth cycles, new monetary economics, rash speculators, national money income, secondary deflation, psychological rate, traverse analysis, aggregate economic fluctuations, composite trends, simple accelerator, sunspot theories, fixed capital goods, more procyclical, macroeconometric models, entrepreneurial expectations, phase averaging, functional finance, macroeconometric modeling
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New York, United States, Bank of England, Federal Reserve, Cambridge Univ, American Economic Review, World War, Banking School, Say's Law, Chicago Press, Journal of Political Economy, Currency School, Bank Charter Act, Princeton Univ, Clarendon Press, New Classical, Harvard Univ, Hong Kong, Stockholm School, Quarterly Journal of Economics, New Keynesian, Great Britain, Journal of Monetary Economics, The Collected Writings, National Bureau of Economic Research
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