The leaderless economy [electronic resource] : why the world economic system fell apart and how to fix it / Peter Temin and David Vines.
2013
HD87 .T416 2013eb
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Title
The leaderless economy [electronic resource] : why the world economic system fell apart and how to fix it / Peter Temin and David Vines.
Author
Temin, Peter.
ISBN
9781400846641 (electronic book)
069115743X
9780691157436
069115743X
9780691157436
Imprint
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (315 p.)
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HD87 .T416 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.6
Summary
The Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis. In this timely and important book, Peter Temin and David Vines argue that our current predicament is a catastrophe rivaled only by the Great Depression. Taking an in-depth look at the history of both, they explain what went wrong and why, and demonstrate why international leadership is needed to restore prosperity and prevent future crises. Temin and Vines argue that the financial collapse of the 1930s was an "end-of-regime crisis" in which the economic leader of the nineteenth century, Great Britain, found itself unable to stem international panic as countries abandoned the gold standard. They trace how John Maynard Keynes struggled for years to identify the causes of the Great Depression, and draw valuable lessons from his intellectual journey. Today we are in the midst of a similar crisis, one in which the regime that led the world economy in the twentieth century--that of the United States--is ending. Temin and Vines show how America emerged from World War II as an economic and military powerhouse, but how deregulation and a lax attitude toward international monetary flows left the nation incapable of reining in an overleveraged financial sector and powerless to contain the 2008 financial panic. Fixed exchange rates in Europe and Asia have exacerbated the problem. The Leaderless Economy provides a blueprint for how renewed international leadership can bring today's industrial nations back into financial balance--domestically and between each other.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Vines, David.
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Table of Contents
Preface
The world economy is broken
The British century and the Great Depression
Keynes from the Macmillan committee to Bretton Woods
The American century and the global financial crisis
Restoring international balance in Europe
Restoring international balance in the world
Using theory to learn from history
Appendix
Notes
References
Index.
The world economy is broken
The British century and the Great Depression
Keynes from the Macmillan committee to Bretton Woods
The American century and the global financial crisis
Restoring international balance in Europe
Restoring international balance in the world
Using theory to learn from history
Appendix
Notes
References
Index.