United States and the Global Economy - From Bretton Woods to the Current Crisis

Informationen zum Autor Frederick S. Weaver is professor emeritus of economics and history at Hampshire College. His recent books include Latin America in the World Economy: Mercantile Colonialism to Global Capitalism, Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude (Third Edition), and Confederates in the Tropics: Charles Swett's Travelogue of 1868, with Sharon Hartman Strom. He has taught introductory and international economics for more than forty years at five colleges and universities-public and private, large and small, high-wage and low-wage, lively and less than lively. Klappentext In The United States and the Global Economy, Frederick S. Weaver gives readers a concise introduction to the patterns of change in international financial and trade regimes since World War II in order to deepen their understanding of recent global economic turmoil. Weaver has compiled a clear chronology of major events in the international economy to show how they have reflected and shaped changes in the domestic economy of the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick Weaver, Frederick S Weaver, Frederick S. Weaver, Frederick Stirton Weaver, Weaver Frederick S.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.10.2011
• EAN: 9781442208896
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-0889-6
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Political Economy, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies