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Shimer, Robert - 2010

Main description: Labor Markets and Business Cycles integrates search and matching theory with the neoclassical growth model to better understand labor market outcomes. Robert Shimer shows analytically and quantitatively that rigid wages are important for explaining the volatile behavior of the...

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Failure by Design : The Story behind America's Broken Economy

Bivens, Josh - 2011

resulting from any recession since the Great Depression. The fallout from the Great Recession makes it near certain that there …

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Straining at the Anchor : The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935

Paolera, Gerardo della; Taylor, Alan M. - 2007

The "Argentine disappointment"—why Argentina persistently failed to achieve sustained economic stability during the twentieth century—is an issue that has mystified scholars for decades. In Straining the Anchor, Gerardo della Paolera and Alan M. Taylor provide many of the missing links that...

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Thailand's Economic Recovery

Hogue, Cavan (contributor) - 2006

Thailand is a society in political, economic and social transition. Change is happening to varying degrees -- at the national level and at the regional level where there are contrasting issues. Changes are positive, some are negative. This book looks at the various aspects of change as it...

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Hawaiʻi Becalmed : Economic Lessons of the 1990s

Grandy, Christopher - 2002

"At the annual average rate of growth Hawaii experienced between 1959 and 1990, the size of the economy would double every 14 years. At the rate of growth experienced between 1991 and 1998, it would take 93 years for Hawaii's economy to double in size."--from the IntroductionWhat happened during...

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Essays on the Great Depression

Bernanke, Ben S. - 2000

Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency … Bernanke has gathered together his essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating. This broad view shows us that while … the Great Depression was an unparalleled disaster, some economies pulled up faster than others, and some made an …

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