Author:
Title:
A Great leap forward : 1930s Depression and U.S. economic growth.--
Classification:
330.9730917 F453
Publisher:
New Haven, CT, Estados Unidos : Yale University, c2011.
Description:
ix, 387 p. : il. ; 25 cm.
Series:
Yale series in economic and financial history
ISBN:
9780300151091
Subjects:
Notes:
Referencias bibliográficas : p. 319-370
Contents:
Part I. A new growth narrative. 1. The most technologically progressive decade of the century -- 2. The interwar years -- 3. The Second World War -- 4. The Golden Age and
beyond -- 5. The information technology boom -- 6. Fin de Siecle : the late nineteenth century in the mirror of the twentieth -- Part II. Extensions and reflections. 7. Procyclical TFP -- 8.
The equipment hypothesis -- 9. General-purpose technologies -- Part III: Historical perspectives on 2007-2010. 10. Financial fragility and recovery -- 11. Uncontrolled land development and
the duration of the Depression -- 12. Do economic downturns have a silver lining? -- Epilogue. -- Appendix: A brief description of growth accounting methods. --
