Business Cycles in Economic Thought - 9781138670860

Taylor & Francis

Business Cycles in Economic ThoughtA history\nAuthor(s): Alain Alcouffe, Monika Poettinger, Bertram Schefold\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138670860, 978-1138670860\nSynopsis\nBusiness Cycles in Economic Thought underlines how, over the time span of two centuries, economic thought interacted with cycles in a continuous renewal of theories and rethinking of policies, whilst economic actions embedded themselves into past economic thought.\n\nThis book argues that studying crises and periods of growth in different European countries will help to understand how different national, political and cultural traditions influenced the complex interaction of economic cycles and economic theorizing. The editors of this great volume bring together expert contributors consisting of economists, historians of economic thought and historians of economics, to analyse crises and theories of the nineteenth and the twentieth centu.