Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Jack Rasmus Издательство: Страниц: 272 ISBN: 0745329985
Описание
Epic Recession explains the origins and future direction of the current economic crisis, and the relationships between the banking system's breakdown and the economy in general. Jack Rasmus describes how Epic Recession is highly resistant to traditional fiscal and monetary policy solutions and requires major structural changes in the economy in order to check and contain. The book analyzes in depth the origins and causes of Epic Recession?revealing its roots in corporate and government policies and fundamental structural changes in U.S. capitalist economy since the early 1980s. Epic Recession explains how the current economic crisis is similar to, and simultaneously different from, both the Great Depression of 1929-1934 and post-1945 recessions in the U.S. It categorizes Epic Recessions in two dominant forms: `Type Ia?? and `Type IIa??: The former similar to events of 1907-1914; the latter to events of 1929-1931. Rasmus argues todaya??s current crisis is evolving into a `Type Ia??,...
