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Beschreibung
Uses a comparative development economic approach - not a detailed economic history, but a reasoned survey of the pivotal points in US economic development
Presents new interpretative tools, such as flow charts regarding the economic consequences of the frontier, the Fordist model of growth, and the stock-flow relations that heavily contributed to the Great Recession of 2008-9
Shows the shifts in global power occurring from 1870 to 2017 and the changing role played by the United States in the international arena
Outlines the main sources of strength and of weakness of the US economy and their changes over time
Includes an in-depth analysis of the Great Depression and of the recent Great Recession
Examines the widening of economic inequalities since the 1980s
Compares the economic policies of Obama and Trump
Takes an 'outsider-looking-in' approach from an American-trained, leading Italian academic incomparative economics
Uses a comparative development economic approach - not a detailed economic history, but a reasoned survey of the pivotal points in US economic development
Presents new interpretative tools, such as flow charts regarding the economic consequences of the frontier, the Fordist model of growth, and the stock-flow relations that heavily contributed to the Great Recession of 2008-9
Shows the shifts in global power occurring from 1870 to 2017 and the changing role played by the United States in the international arena
Outlines the main sources of strength and of weakness of the US economy and their changes over time
Includes an in-depth analysis of the Great Depression and of the recent Great Recession
Examines the widening of economic inequalities since the 1980s
Compares the economic policies of Obama and Trump
Takes an 'outsider-looking-in' approach from an American-trained, leading Italian academic incomparative economics
Über den Autor
Vittorio Valli is Emeritus Professor at the University of Turin and has taught at Bocconi University and at the University of Padua, all in Italy. He has been Visiting Professor at the University of Kyoto, Japan; Seoul National University, South Korea; University of Nice, France; and Visiting Scholar at Brown University and the University of California (Berkeley), USA. He was the first president of the Italian Association for the Study of Comparative Economic Systems and the European Association of Comparative Economic Studies. He was also co-editor of the European Journal of Comparative Economics.
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Zusammenfassung
  • Uses a comparative development economic approach - not a detailed economic history, but a reasoned survey of the pivotal points in US economic development
  • Presents new interpretative tools, such as flow charts regarding the economic consequences of the frontier, the Fordist model of growth, and the stock-flow relations that heavily contributed to the Great Recession of 2008-9
  • Shows the shifts in global power occurring from 1870 to 2017 and the changing role played by the United States in the international arena
  • Outlines the main sources of strength and of weakness of the US economy and their changes over time
  • Includes an in-depth analysis of the Great Depression and of the recent Great Recession
  • Examines the widening of economic inequalities since the 1980s
  • Compares the economic policies of Obama and Trump
  • Takes an 'outsider-looking-in' approach from an American-trained, leading Italian academic in comparative economics
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: The Birth of a Great Economic Power.- Chapter 2: The Fordist Model of Economic Development.- Chapter 3: The Great Depression and the New Deal.- Chapter 4: Return and Crisis of the Fordist Model of Development.- Chapter 5: Capital Accumulation, Technological Progress and Knowledge.- Chapter 6: The Global Power of the United States.- Chapter 7: Main Weaknesses in the American Economic Power.- Chapter 8: Towards a Global Economic Empire.- Chapter 9: The Great Recession.- Chapter 10: Obanomics.- Chapter 11: The Economic Consequences of Donald Trump.- Chapter 12: America's Decline?: Towards an Imperfect Multipolar World.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Populäre Darstellungen
Genre: Politikwissenschaft & Soziologie, Recht, Sozialwissenschaften, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Wissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: xviii
227 S.
17 s/w Illustr.
227 p. 17 illus.
ISBN-13: 9783319969527
ISBN-10: 3319969528
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 978-3-319-96952-7
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Valli, Vittorio
Hersteller: Springer
Springer International Publishing AG
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße: 210 x 148 x 14 mm
Von/Mit: Vittorio Valli
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.11.2018
Gewicht: 0,326 kg
Artikel-ID: 113991442