Recessions and Depressions: Understanding Business Cycles - Softcover

Knoop, Todd A.

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ISBN 10: 0313361711 ISBN 13: 9780313361715

Verlag: Praeger Publishers Inc, 2004

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Book by Knoop Todd Alan

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"[E]xcellent scholarly introduction to business cycles." - CFO Magazine "[K]noop's discussion of the problems of macroeconomic forecasting, whether through the use of leading economic indicators, market indicators, or econometric models, is highly informative and insightful....[t]his book should be accessible to students, and they will gain a good deal of information about, and a fair understanding of, business cycles from reading it." - EH.NET "Knoop admirably achieves his stated objective of producing a teaching text. The result is simultaneously an informative, readable, balanced, and worthwhile work that will be an appealing primary or ancillary text for advanced macro classes or seminars. Highly recommended. Informed general readers; upper-division undergraduates through professionals." - Choice

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The economy of any nation is an intricate web of relationships among the factors determining supply and demand-and everything that affects them, from inflation to taxes to the stock market. The study of business cycles attempts to explain why economies grow and contract, experiencing periods of prosperity and pain. Consistent with the popular conception of economics as the dismal science, economists secretly long for recessions (periods of negative growth) and depressions (severe contractions), not because they enjoy their devastating impact on human welfare, but because these downturns serve as excellent laboratories for observing what happens when markets break down. Despite over two centuries of debate, no one has yet definitively unlocked the secrets of economic downturns and how they might be prevented. In Recessions and Depressions Todd Knoop traces the evolution of business cycle theory, from the classical model, which preceded the Great Depression, through the ground-breaking ideas of John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, and their followers. He examines the strengths and limitations of each approach, in terms of explaining the impact of such factors as government policy, money supply, labor productivity, and wages. In the process, he presents an accessible introduction to what makes the economy tick, and offers new insights into understanding such historic events as the Great Depression, as well as more recent ones, such as the Asian meltdown in the 1990s, the financial crises in Latin America, and the U.S. recession of 2001, from which the United States is still recovering. Knoop reminds us that economists' track record in forecasting business cycles leaves much to be desired, and the quest to fully understand what causes economic downturns-and their effects on individuals and families-continues.

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• Verlag: Praeger Publishers Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0313361711
• ISBN 13: 9780313361715
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312