Wrong (Record no. 5032)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199322190
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 339.50GRO
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Grossman, Richard S.
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Wrong
Remainder of title nine economic policy disasters and what we can learn from them
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxi, 266 p. ; 22 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-239) and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In Wrong, economist Richard Grossman addresses such questions, shining a light on the poor thinking behind nine of the worst economic policy mistakes of the past 200 years, missteps whose outcomes ranged from appalling to tragic. Grossman tells the story behind each misconceived economic move, explaining why the policy was adopted, how it was implemented, and its short- and long-term consequences. In each case, he shows that the main culprits were policy makers who were guided by ideology rather than economics. For instance, Wrong looks at how America's unfounded fear of a centralized monetary authority caused them to reject two central banks, condemning the nation to wave after wave of financial panics. He describes how Britain's blind commitment to free markets, rather than to assisting the starving in Ireland, led to one of the nineteenth century's worst humanitarian tragedies- the Irish famine. And he shows how Britain's reestablishment of the gold standard after World War I, fuelled largely by a desire to recapture its pre-war dominance, helped to turn what would otherwise have been a normal recession into the Great Depression. Grossman also explores the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930, Japan's lost decade of the 1990s, the American subprime crisis, and the present European sovereign debt crisis.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Financial crises--Case studies.
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        UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dodoma Sustainable Development 01/17/2025   339.50GRO UR005096 01/31/2025 01/17/2025 Book