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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790632503321

Autore

Harrison Fred

Titolo

Boom bust [[electronic resource] ] : house prices, banking and the depression of 2010 / / Fred Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Shepheard-Walwyn, 2007

ISBN

0-85683-314-2

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

338.542

Soggetti

Business cycles

Land use - Planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Second Edition; Prologue; PART I AS SAFE AS HOUSES?; 1 Britain's Housing and the Business Cycle; 2 Banking on Failure; 3 The American State of Virtual Reality; 4 The Incredible Alan Greenspan; PART II GENESIS OF THE BOOM-BUST CYCLE; 5 Rent and the 18-Year Cycle; 6 The Patterns of History; 7 The Alchemy of Land Speculation; 8 The End of Boom Bust?; PART III ANATOMY OF THE FIRST GLOBAL CYCLE; 9 The New Economy: Selling an Anglo-American Myth; 10 Launched in the USA; 11 Gordon Brown's Magic Mantra; PART IV THE AUTOMATIC STABILISER

12 Counter-Cyclical Action13 Australia: The Pathology of Taxation; 14 Dividends from Democratised Finance; PART V THE RECKONING; 15 2007: From Peak to Downwave; 16 2010: Economics of the Debt Junkie; Index