Grossman, Richard S.

Wrong : nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them / Nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them. Richard S. Grossman. - xxi, 266 pages

How to lose an empire without really trying : British imperial policy in North America -- Establish, disestablish, repeat : the first and second banks of the United States -- The great hunger : famine in Ireland, 1846-1852 -- The Krauts will pay : German reparations after World War I -- Shackled with golden fetters : Britain's return to the gold standard, 1925-1931 -- Trading down : the Smooth-Hawley Tariff, 1930 -- Why didn't anyone pull the Andon cord? Japan's lost decade -- The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression : the subprime meltdown -- I'm ok. Euro not ok? -- What have we learned? Where do we go from here?

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Financial crises--Case studies.
Economic policy--Case studies.
Financial crises--History.
Economic policy--History.

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