Economic Disasters of the Twentieth Century

by Niall Ferguson, Forrest Capie, Michael Beenstock, et al.

How do we define an economic disaster? A difficult question. Most centuries would claim that they have had their share of disasters, but the twentieth century certainly seems to have been more prone to them than the previous one. A number of leading economists and economic historians assemble here to examine nine key disasters with international or global implications. The First and Second World Wars, the great depression, oil shocks, inflation, financial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 184064589X
• ISBN13: 9781840645897
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 384 Pages