1. Insights for today's trying economic times / Robert M. Whaples and G. Page West III -- 2. Insights from Walter Bagehot / Perry Mehrling -- 3. Insights from Thorstein Veblen / Robert Prasch -- 4. Insights from John Maynard Keynes / Bradley Bateman -- 5. Insights from the Great Depression /...

The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first...