The American Business Cycle: Continuity and Change

by Robert J. Gordon

Book Overview

In recent decades the American economy has experienced the worst peace-time inflation in its history and the highest unemployment rate since the Great Depression. These circumstances have prompted renewed interest in the concept of business cycles, which Joseph Schumpeter suggested are "like the beat of the heart, of the essence of the organism that displays them."

In The American Business Cycle, some of the most prominent macroeconomics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226304531
• ISBN13: 9780226304533
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 882 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"