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Record Nr.

UNINA9911026177403321

Autore

De Groot Michael <1988->

Titolo

Disruption : the global economic shocks of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War / / Michael De Groot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781501774133

1501774131

9781501774126

1501774123

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 307 pages) : illustrations, charts

Disciplina

909.82/5

Soggetti

Cold War - Influence

International economic relations - History - 20th century

World politics - 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Disruption -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. American Power and the Collapse of the Bretton Woods System -- 2. Eastern European Development and Soviet Subsidies -- 3. The West and the Oil Shock -- 4. Twin Oil Crises behind the Iron Curtain -- 5. The Travails of Jimmy Carter -- 6. The Soviet Umbrella and the Volcker Shock -- 7. Managing the Inversion -- 8. The Collapse of the Soviet Welfare  Empire -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book illuminates the link between the global economic shocks of the 1970s and the end of the Cold War"--