Table of Contents

Contents:

Introduction
M.J. Oliver and D.H. Aldcroft

1. ‘Destruction. . . and Misery’: The First World War
J. Singleton

2. The Great Depression, 1929–33
W.R. Garside

3. The Second World War as an Economic Disaster
N. Ferguson

4. The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of OPEC
M. Beenstock

5. Inflation in the Twentieth Century
F.H. Capie

6. Financial Crises
M.J. Oliver

7. Stock Market Crashes
G.E. Wood

8. The Demise of the Command Economies in the Soviet Union and its Outer Empire
S. Morewood

9. The Fatal Inversion: The African Growth Disaster
D.H. Aldcroft

Index

About the Author

Edited by Michael J. Oliver, Professor of Economics, ESC Rennes School of Business, France and Associate of Lombard Street Research and Derek H. Aldcroft, Fellow, University of Leicester, UK

Reviews

'Here is a book to warm the cockles of George Santayana's heart. Can policy makers and, especially, economists learn from their mistakes? If they can, then they should start by reading Oliver and Aldcroft's gripping collection of the great economic policy mistakes of the twentieth century.'- Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley, US