TY - BOOK AU - Aldcroft,Derek Howard AU - Oliver,Michael J. TI - Economic disasters of the twentieth century SN - 1840645897 AV - HB3722 .E28 U1 - 338.542 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Cheltenham PB - Edward Elgar KW - Financial crises KW - Case studies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; M.J. Oliver and D.H. Aldcroft --; 1; 'Destruction--and misery' : the First World War; J. Singleton --; 2. The; Great Depression, 1929-33; W.R. Garside --; 3. The; Second World War as an economic disaster; N. Ferguson --; 4. The; rise, fall and rise again of OPEC; M. Beenstock --; 5; Inflation in the twentieth century; F.H. Capie --; 6; Financial crises; M.J. Oliver --; 7; Stock market crashes; G.E. Wood --; 8. The; demise of the command economies in the Soviet Union and its outer empire; S. Morewood --; 9. The; fatal inversion : the African growth disaster; D.H. Aldcroft ER -