Economic Disasters of the Twentieth CenturyMichael J. Oliver, Derek Howard Aldcroft Edward Elgar Publishing, 1. jan. 2007 - 361 sider The First and Second World Wars, the great depression, oil shocks, inflation, financial crises, stock market crashes, the collapse of the Soviet command economy and Third World disasters are discussed in this comprehensive book. The contributors subject t |
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2 The Great Depression 192933 | 51 |
3 The Second World War as an economic disaster | 83 |
4 The rise fall and rise again of OPEC | 133 |
5 Inflation in the twentieth century | 162 |
6 Financial crises | 182 |
7 Stock market crashes | 236 |
8 The demise of the command economies in the Soviet Union and its outer empire | 258 |
the African growth disaster | 312 |
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