Aronoff challenges the conventional view that reckless credit produced the US housing boom and the financial crisis, explaining how the large current account deficit, and its mercantilist origin, was a more fundamental cause

This edited volume uses a feminist approach to explore the economic implications of the complex interrelationship between gender and time use. Household composition, sexuality, migration patterns, income levels, and race/ethnicity are all considered as important factors that interact with gender...

1. Understanding Recession: Conceptual Arguments and US Adjustments -- 2. Financial Crisis and the Great Recession in the United States -- 3. Dynamics of Deflation and Unemployment: Fall into an Abyss of Deflation -- 4. Market Fluctuations and Country Risk Relationships for Australian and Indian...

Einleitung -- Wichtige makroökonomische Kennzahlen -- Der Modellrahmen -- Makroökonomische Konjunkturtheorien -- Die US-Wirtschaft bei Trumps Amtsantritt -- Die Auswirkungen von Trumps Vorhaben -- Fazit.

The US is slowly recovering from the aftermath of the burst of the 'new economy' bubble - which was one of the worst in monetary history. In this updated edition, Philip Arestis and Elias Karakitsos examine the causes and consequences of the burst of the 'new economy' bubble and investigate the...

Fabian Schnell develops a model indicating that by keeping real interest rates too low, monetary policy can distort the allocation of resources across firms and potentially delay economic recovery after a recession. This is a new channel of monetary policy that is especially relevant in view of...

Family reconstitution data: a cliometric view -- History of cliometrics -- Growth theories -- Cliometric approaches to war -- GDP and convergence in modern times -- Cliometrics and the great depression -- Financial Systems -- Cliometric approaches to international trade -- Time series -- The...

Introduction.- Balanced Growth in Decentralized Economies -- Transition to Balanced Growth -- The Finance of the Transition Phase -- Production Capacities in Decentralized Economies -- Models of Technological Progress in Decentralized Economies -- Cyclical Growth in Decentralized Economies.-...