Business cycles and depressions : an encyclopedia
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Business cycles and depressions : an encyclopedia
（Garland reference library of social science, v. 505）
Garland, 1997
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Includes bibliography
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
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
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