On Economics

by mumbles

The thesis of The Great Inflation by Robert J Samuelson is that the inflation of the 1970s was the basis for most problems through the 1970s and early 1980s and stopping it led to the recovery of the late 1980s, the boom of the 1990s and the bubbles of today. Samuelson, an editor at Newsweek and The Washington Post, takes a readable journalistic approach to explain the causes and effects of inflation and forecasting the risk if we repeat the same mistakes.

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Posted at 11 August 09 at 17.08 in Books