How Crises Shaped Economic Ideas and Policies Wiser After the Events? /

• Main Author: Christodoulakis, Nicos (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: History.; Economic history.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Methodology/History of Economic Thought.; Economic Systems.; History of Science.; Economic Policy.

This book explores how successful the various tenets of economic thought have been in prognosticating or remedying economic crises. Examining key episodes in economic history, from famines in antiquity to present-day financial collapse, the author finds that several theories failed to cope with a cr...