Interwar Unemployment in International Perspective

by Eichengreen and Centre for Economic Policy Research

High unemployment has been one of the most disturbing features of the economy of the 1980s. For a precedent, one must look to the interwar period and in particular to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It follows that recent years have been marked by a resurgence of interest amongst academics in interwar unemployment. The debate has been contentious. There is nothing like the analysis of a period which recorded rates of un- employment approaching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9024736978
• ISBN13: 9789024736973
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 434 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"