Hall of mirrors : : the Great Depression, the great recession, and the uses-and misuses-of history / / Barry Eichengreen.

• VerfasserIn: Eichengreen, Barry J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (521 pages)

"There have been two global financial crises in the past century: the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2008. Both featured loose credit, precarious real estate and stock market bubbles, suspicious banking practices, an inflexible monetary system, and global im...

Table of Contents

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• Introduction
• Castles in Spain Made Real
• Inflation's Shadow
• Children's Playroom
• Financialization with a Vengeance
• Flip That House
• Europe and the Euro
• The Crisis to End All Crises
• The J.P. Morgan of the South
• Shuttle Diplomacy
• Will America Topple Too?
• Largely Contained
• Out of the Shadows
• The Worst Financial Crisis Since 1933
• The Three B's
• New Deal
• Double Dip
• Preventing the Worst
• Unconventional Policy
• Weak Soup
• The Turn to Austerity
• The Euro Crisis
• Whatever It Takes
• Conclusion.