Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery

• Main Authors: Grinin, Leonid (Author), Korotayev, Andrey (Author), Tausch, Arno (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice
• Subjects: Political economy.; International economics.; Economics.; Economic sociology.; International Economics.; Political Economy.; Economic Systems.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This thought-provoking monograph analyzes long- medium- and short-term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving relationships between the global...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: cyclical and world-systemic aspects of economic reality with respect to contemporary crisis
•  Kondratieff waves in the world system perspective
•  Interaction between Kondratieff waves and juglar cycles
•  From Kondratieff waves to Akamatsu waves? A new center-periphery perspective on long cycles
•  Conclusion: new Kondratieff waves and forthcoming global social transformation .