The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective

Cambridge University Press, 3/23/2006
EAN 9780521617901, ISBN10: 0521617901

Paperback, 334 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
Language: English

The 1990s were an extraordinary, contradictory, fascinating period of economic development, one evoking numerous historical parallels. But the 1990s are far from being well understood and their meaning for the future remains open to debate. In this volume, world-class economic historians analyze the growth of the world economy, globalization and its implications for domestic and international policy, the sources and sustainability of productivity growth in the USA, the causes of sluggish growth in Europe and Japan, comparisons of the Information Technologies revolution with previous innovation waves, the bubble and burst in asset prices and their impacts on the real economy, the effects of trade and factor mobility on the global distribution of income, and the changes in the welfare state, regulation, and macro-policy making. Leading scholars place the 1990s in a fuller long-run global context, offering insights into what lies ahead for the world economy in the twenty-first century.

1. Understanding the 1990s
the long-run perspective Paul Rhode and Gianni Toniolo
2. The world economy in the 1990s
a long-run perspective Nicholas Crafts
3. Managing the world economy in the 1990s Barry Eichengreen
4. Europe
a continent in decline? Riccardo Faini
5. Technical change and US economic growth
the interwar period and the 1990s Alexander J. Field
6. GPTs
then and now Peter L. Rousseau
7. Productivity growth and the American labor market
the 1990s in historical perspective Gavin Wright
8. The 1920s and the 1990s in mutual reflection Robert J. Gordon
9. Bubbles and bursts
the 1990s in the mirror of the 1920s Eugene N. White
10. The 1990s as a postwar decade Peter Temin
11. What is happening to the Welfare State? Peter H. Lindert
12. The American economic policy environment of the 1990s
origins, consequences, and legacies Michael A. Bernstein
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