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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christodoulakis, Nicos
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Preface.- 1 Introduction: Delusions and Lessons
  • 2 Forms of Economic Theories and Crises
  • 3 How Old are Economics?
  • 4 Economic Crises and Practices in the Roman and Byzantine Era
  • 5 Economic Theories and Practices in Medieval Europe
  • 6 Economics before the Industrial Revolution.- 7 The Industrial Revolution and the Foundation of Classical Economics
  • 8 Crises and Theories After the Industrial Revolution
  • 9 From Accumulation to Distribution
  • 10 The Great Crisis and the Theory of Keynes
  • 11 Theories of Central Planning and the Socialist Crises
  • 12 From Keynesian Economics to Stagflation.- 13 Development, Collapse and New Theories
  • 14 Post 2008: Challenging the Foundations of Orthodoxy
  • 15 Is there a Methodological Crisis in Economics?.