The two great financial crises of the past century are the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession, which began in 2008. Both occurred against the backdrop of sharp credit booms, dubious banking practices, and a fragile and unstable global financial system. When markets went into cardiac arrest in 2008, policymakers invoked the lessons of the Great Depression in a...(展开全部)

In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the...(展开全部)

Flora Kimmich has translated J.G. Droysen's classic study into English for the first time. Through her masterly rendering she brings this foundational work of modern historiography of the ancient world to a new audience. Based entirely on ancient sources, this is an exhaustive, beautifully narrated account of Alexander from the origins of the ancient Macedonian kingdom to Alexa...(展开全部)

David Hackett Fischer, one of our most prominent historians, has garnered a reputation for making history come alive - even stories as familiar as Paul Revere's ride, or as complicated as the assimilation of British culture in North America. Now, in The Great Wave, Fischer has done it again, marshalling an astonishing array of historical facts in lucid and compelling prose to o...(展开全部)

A unique view of historical change, based on the rise and fall of prices.

The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict From 1500 to 2000, by Paul Kennedy, first published in 1987, explores the politics and economics of the Great Powers from 1500 to 1980 and the reason for their decline. It then continues by forecasting the positions of China, Japan, the European Economic Community (EEC), the Soviet Union and the United...(展开全部)

Is it possible that the consensus around what caused the 2008 Great Recession is almost entirely wrong? It’s happened before. Just as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz led the economics community in the 1960s to reevaluate its view of what caused the Great Depression, the same may be happening now to our understanding of the first economic crisis of this century. Foregoing the ...(展开全部)

斯特兹·特克尔，美国口述史权威、著名作家、广播节目制作人。1966年，特克尔的第一本口述史著作《断街》出版，旋即成为畅销书，之后他一部部推出人们颇为关心的讨论话题，每部都在当时引起巨大反响，包括《艰难时代》《美国梦寻》《正义的战争》等，曾获普利策非虚构文学奖。

"A magisterial work...You can't help thinking about the economic crisis we're living through now." -- The New York Times Book Review It is commonly believed that the Great Depression that began in 1929 resulted from a confluence of events beyond any one person's or government's control. In fact, as Liaquat Ahamed reveals, it was the decisions made by a small number of cent...(展开全部)

 拥有20多年工作经历的职业投资经理人。曾任世界银行投行部主管，现任Rock Creek Group 和Rohatyn Group等著名对冲基金的投资顾问，也是美国阿斯彭保险公司董事和布鲁金斯学会理事。  本书历时4年创作完成，对几位中央银行家的批评和对“大萧条”的系统回顾，成为对2008年金融危机的重要反思和借鉴。