"Explains the history of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression, as well as President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ambitious program of New Deal reforms. Features include a narrative overview, biographical profiles, primary source documents, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and...

Die aktuelle Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise erinnert in mancher Hinsicht an die Situation zu Beginn der 1930er-Jahre: Florian Pressler erläutert, wie überhitzte Märkte und riskante Finanzmanöver die weltweit als Katastrophe erlebte Grosse Depression auslösten und fragt nach Parallelen zur...

The Making of Economic Policy begins by observing that most countries' trade policies are so blatantly contrary to all the prescriptions of the economist that there is no way to understand this discrepancy except by delving into the politics. The same is true for many other dimensions of...