Business Cycles in the Run of History ISBN: 9783319243252 Platform/Publisher: SpringerLink / Springer International Publishing Digital rights:Users: unlimited; Printing: unlimited; Download: unlimited Subjects: Economics and Finance;
This book analyzes the development of economic cycles in the run of history. The focus is on the development of cycle theory, with maximum emphasis upon ideas. Chapter 1 delivers an overview of the debate about cycles before the 1970s. Chapter 2 completes this survey by presenting the main empirical investigations since that time. Finally, Chapters 3 and 4 illustrate the discourse, by presenting, in the tradition of Burns and Mitchell, original case studies on France, South Africa, and Germany.