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Booms and Busts: An Encyclopedia of Economic History from Tulipmania of the 1630s to the Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
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Description: This timely and authoritative set explores four centuries of good times and hard times in major economies throughout the world. Nearly 400 signed articles cover events from Tulipmania during the 1630s to the U.S. economic stimulus package of 2009, and introduce readers to underlying concepts, economic theories, recurring themes, major institutions, events, and notable figures.
Written in a clear, accessible style, Booms and Busts supports history and economics curricula, and provides vital insights and perspective for students, teachers, and the general public--anyone interested in understanding the historical precedents, causes, and longer-term effects of the current global economic crisis.
A chronology of major booms and busts throughout history, a glossary of economic terms, sources for further research, a topic finder, and a comprehensive index help make this encyclopedia the definitive reference on one of the most critical issues of our time.
Selected Contents:
Booms and Busts: Pre-Twentieth Century
Booms and Busts: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
Booms and Busts: Causes and Consequences
Africa, Sub-Saharan; Agriculture; AIG; Airline Industry; Akerman, Johan Henryk; Argentina; Asian Financial Crisis (1997); Asset-Price Bubble; Australia; Austrian School; Automated Trading Systems
Babson, Roger; Balance of Payments; Baltic Tigers; Bank Cycles; Bank of America; Banking School/Currency School Debate; Banks, Central; Banks, Commercial; Banks, Investment; Bauer, Otto; Bear Stearns; Behavioral Economics; Belgium; Bernanke, Ben; Bethlehem Steel; Bohm-Bawerk, Eugen Ritter von; Boom, Economic (1920s); Boom, Economic (1960s); Brazil; BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China); Brunner, Karl; Bullock, Charles; Burchardt, Fritz; Burns, Arthur; Business Cycles, International
Canada; Capital Account; Capital Market; Capital One ; Catastrophe Theory; Central America; Chile; China; Chrysler; Circuit City Stores; Citigroup; Classical Theories and Models; Collateral; Collateralized Debt Obligations; Collateralized Mortgage Obligations; Colombia; Commodity Markets; Community Reinvestment Act (1977); Confidence, Consumer and Business; Congressional Budget Office; Construction, Housing and Commercial; Consumer and Investor Protection; Consumption; Corporate Corruption; Corporate Finance; Council of Economic Advisers, U.S.; Countrywide Financial; Creative Destruction; Credit Cycle; Credit Default Swaps; Credit Rating Agencies; Current Account
Debt; Debt Instruments; Deflation; Demographic Cycle; Denmark; Depository Institutions; Dot.com Bubble (1990s-2000s); Dow Jones Industrial Average; Duesenberry, James
Eastern Europe; Echo Bubble; Eckstein, Otto; Effective Demand; Efficient Market Theory; Emerging Markets; Employment and Unemployment; Endogenous Growth Models; Enron; European Central Bank; Exchange Rates
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Federal Housing Administration; Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, Office of; Federal Reserve System; Fellner, William John; Financial Development/Deepening; Financial Markets; Financial Modeling of the Business Cycle; Finland; Fiscal Balance; Fiscal Policy; Fisher, Irving; Fisher's Debt-Deflation Theory; Fixed Business Investment; Fleetwood Enterprises; Florida Real Estate Boom (1920s); Foreclosure; Fragility, Financial; France; Friction, Financial; Friedman, Milton; Frisch, Ragnar
Galbraith, John Kenneth; Geithner, Timothy; General Motors; German Historical School; Germany; Glass-Steagall Act (1933); Goldman Sachs; Goodwin, Richard Murphy; Government Accountability Office; Great Depression (1929-1933); Greece; Greenspan, Alan; Gross Domestic Product; Growth Cycles; Growth, Economic
Haberler, Gottfried von; Hansen, Alvin Harvey; Harrod, Roy Forbes; Hawtrey, Ralph George; Hayek, Friedrich August von; Hedge Funds; Hicks, John Richard; Hoarding; House Financial Services Committee; Housing; Housing and Urban Development, Department of; Housing Booms and Busts
Iceland; Immigration and Migration; Income Distribution; India; Indicators of Financial Vulnerability; Indonesia; Industrial Policy; IndyMac Bancorp; Inflation; Information Technology; Innovation, Financial; Institutional Economics; Insull, Samuel; Integration, Financial; Interest Rates; Intermediation, Financial; International Development Banks; International Economic Agreements; International Monetary Fund; International Monetary Fund Mortgage Market Index; International Policy Coordination; Inventory Investment; Investment, Financial; Ireland; "Irrational Exuberance"; Israel; Italy
Japan; Jevons, William Stanley; JPMorgan Chase; Juglar, Clment
Kaldor, Nicholas; Kalecki, Michal; Kautsky, Karl; Keynes, John Maynard; Keynesian Business Model; Kindleberger, Charles; Kondratieff Cycles; Kondratieff, Nikolai Dmitriyevich; Koopmans, Tjalling Charles; Korea, South; Kuznets, Simon Smith
Labor Market; Lachmann, Ludwig Maurits; Lange, Oskar R.; Latin America; Law, John; Leads and Lags; Lehman Brothers; Lerner, Abba P.; Leveraging and Deleveraging, Financial; Liberalization, Financial; Life Insurance; Linens 'n Things; Liquidity Crunch; Liquidity Trap; Loan-to-Value Ratio; Long-Term Capital Management; Lowe, Adolph; Loyd, Samuel Jones; Luminent Mortgage Capital; Lundberg, Erik Filip; Luxemburg, Rosa
Madoff, Bernard; Malthus, Thomas Robert; Manufacturing; Market Trends; Marshall, Alfred; Marx, Karl; Marxist Cycle Model; Merrill Lynch; Metzler, Lloyd Appleton; Mexico; Middle East and North Africa; Mill, John Stuart; Mills, Frederick Cecil; Minsky, Hyman; Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis; Mises, Ludwig von; Mississippi Bubble (1717-1720); Mitchell, Wesley Clair; Monetary Policy; Monetary Stability; Monetary Theories and Models; Money Markets; Money, Neutrality of; Money Store, The; Moral Hazard; Morgan Stanley; Morgenstern, Oskar; Mortgage-Backed Securities; Mortgage, Commercial/Industrial; Mortgage Equity; Mortgage Lending Standards; Mortgage Markets and Mortgage Rates; Mortgage, Reverse; Mortgage, Subprime; Myrdal, Gunnar
Nasdaq; National Bureau of Economic Research; National Economic Council; Neoclassical Theories and Models; Neo-Keynesian Theories and Models; Netherlands, The; New Deal; New York Stock Exchange; New Zealand; Northern Rock; Norway
Oil Industry; Oil Shocks (1973-1974, 1979-1980); Over-Savings and Over-Investment Theories of the Business Cycle; Overvaluation
Pacific Rim; Panic of 1901; Panic of 1907; Panics and Runs, Bank; Paulson, Henry; Penn Central; Philippines; PNC Financial Services; Political Theories and Models; Ponzi Scheme (1919-1920); Portugal; Poseidon Bubble (1969-1970); Post Keynesian Theories and Models; Poverty; Price Stability; Production Cycles; Productivity; Profit; Public Works Policy
Real Business Cycle Models; Real Estate Speculation; Recession and Financial Crisis (2007- ); Recession, Reagan (1981-1982); Recession, Roosevelt (1937-1939); Recession, Stagflation (1970s); Refinancing; Regulation, Financial; Resource Allocation; Retail and Wholesale Trade; Retirement Instruments; Risk and Uncertainty; Robbins, Lionel Charles; Robertson, Dennis Holme; Robinson, Joan; Romer, Christina; Rpke, Wilhelm; Rostow, Walt Whitman; Rubin, Robert; Russia and the Soviet Union
S&P 500; Samuelson, Paul; Savings and Investment; Savings and Loan Crises (1980s-1990s); Schumpeter, Joseph; Schwartz, Anna ; Seasonal Cycles; Securities and Exchange Commission; Securitization; Shackle, George; Shadow Banking System; Shock-Based Theories; Slow-Growth Recovery; Smith, Adam; Souk al-Manakh (Kuwait) Stock Market Crash (1982); South Africa; South Sea Bubble (1720); Southeast Asia; Spain; Spiethoff, Arthur; Spillover Effect; Sprague, Oliver; Sraffa, Piero; Stability and Stabilization, Economic; Steindl, Josef; Stimulus Package, U.S. (2008); Stimulus Package, U.S. (2009); Stochastic Models; Stock and Bond Capitalization; Stock Market Crash (1929); Stock Market Crash (1987); Stock Markets, Global; Stockholm School; Subsidies; Summers, Lawrence; Sunspot Theories; Sweden; Switzerland; Systemic Financial Crises
Tax Policy; Technological Innovation; Tequila Effect; Thorp, Willard Long; Three-Curve Barometer; Thrift Supervision, Office of; Tinbergen, Jan; Tobin, James; "Too Big to Fail"; Transition Economies; Treasury Bills; Treasury, Department of; Tribune Company; Tropicana Entertainment; Troubled Asset Relief Program (2008-); Tugan-Baranovsky, Mikhail Ivanovich; Tulipmania (1636-1637); Turkey
UBS; Unemployment, Natural Rate of; United Kingdom; United States
Veblen, Thorstein; Venture Capital; VeraSun Energy; Viner, Jacob; Volcker, Paul; Von Neumann, John
Wachovia; Wages; Washington Mutual; Wealth; World Bank; WorldCom
Zarnowitz, Victor
Review(s): "A highly informative work that can serve a significant range of patrons seeking an overview of economic trends like those dominating current events coverage. Recommended for academic and large public libraries." -- Library Journal
"Undergraduate students and general readers should find most articles easy to understand. Booms and Busts should prove useful in academic and public libraries." -- Booklist
"The volumes include more than 360 alphabetically arranged critical essays that discuss the causes, history, and effects of various topics related to boom-and-bust economic cycles. Recommended. All academic and public libraries; lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers." -- Choice
"The topic of economic cycles is hot, of course, and in focusing on this critical aspect of economic history, this reference offers something other than a general economics text. The alphabetically arranged, signed entries, written in a clear style accessible to general readers as well as students at high school level and above, are presented in three volumes, each about 300 pages long--so they're not too hefty to look friendly." -- Reference Research Book News
"Entries are written in an easy-to-understand style that will appeal to its audience and will useful for teachers to use for assignments. ... This is one source that is likely to be used in a high school or academic collection. Its reader-friendly writing style and layout will appeal to a variety of users." -- American Reference Books Annual
"The articles are very readable. Economics and economic topics can be tedious and hard to understand. This encyclopedia takes some of the mystery out of economic topics at least for this reviewer. Many of the topics also give historical context and provide insight into how earlier times and events can and do effect current times. Libraries of all types would find this encyclopedia helpful." -- Reference Reviews
"The language is appropriate for a college audience, especially for entry-level economics students who need an introduction to banking and finance, historical cycles, schools of thought, financial instruments, markets and exchanges, government policies and programs, or regional economies." -- College & Research Libraries News
    
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