The Long Wave in the World Economy

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Routledge, Sep 13, 2013 - Business & Economics - 356 pages

Enthusiastically received by reviewers - `It is an intellectual tour de force ... this is the most substantial synthesis of long wave theory to be published since the revival of interest in the whole topic.' - Professor Christopher Freeman

Synthesises material on trade, equity and the environment to come up with a theory of how the world economy develops

Author's previous book The Causes of the Present Inflation (Macmillan) was well received/reviewed by the media

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Contents

Introduction
1
The long wave debate
7
Technological styles
36
Monetary feedback
84
Population feedback
101
Inequality feedback 1 In the North
122
Inequality feedback 2 International and in the South
147
A résumé of the theoretical argument
183
A historical account 18501896
207
A historical account 18961945
221
A historical account from 1945 to the present
248
The way to the next upswing
272
Notes
295
Bibliography
320
Index
329
Copyright

A historical account 17801850
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Andrew Tylecote, University of Sheffield, UK.

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