The Barbaric Counter Revolution: Cause and Cure

by W.W. Rostow

Book Overview

In the 1980s, troubled Americans saw interest rates in the United States climb to an alltime high, unemployment grow to over 10 percent, the federal deficit reach near monumental proportions, and the world economy as a whole fall stagnant.

Why did a once booming world economy give way to stagflation? Economist W. W. Rostow finds the roots of the problem in the phenomenon he terms the Barbaric Counter-Revolution-the effort to wring inflation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292729669
• ISBN13: 9780292729667
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"