Barry Eichengreen

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1) Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History

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Eichengreen, Barry

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

2014

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The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in attempting to avert the worst. While their response prevented a financial...

2) Hall of mirrors: the Great Depression, the great recession, and the uses-and misuses-of history

Author

Eichengreen, Barry J

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Pub. Date

2015.

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"A brilliantly conceived dual-track account of the two greatest economic crises of the last century and their consequences"-- "The Great Depression and the Great Recession are the two great economic crises of the past hundred years. While there are accounts of both episodes, no one has yet attempted a sustained comparative analysis. In Hall of Mirrors, Barry Eichengreen draws on his unparalleled expertise for a brilliantly conceived dual-track account...