Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: Intl Monetary Fund
Keywords: stress, downturns, recoveries, financial, october, economic, outlook, world
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2008-10-31
ISBN-10: 1589067584
ISBN-13: 9781589067585

"The World Economic Outlook" ("WEO") presents the IMF staff’s analysis and projections of economic developments at the global level, in major country groups (classified by region, stage of development, etc.), and in many individual countries. It focuses on major economic policy issues as well as on the analysis of economic developments and prospects. It is usually prepared twice a year, as documentation for meetings of the International Monetary and Financial Committee, and forms the main instrument of the IMF’s global surveillance activities.

Author: Murray N. Rothbard
Publisher: mises
Keywords: depression, america’s
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2009-04-03
ISBN-10: 1607961105
ISBN-13: 9781607961109

From the Author The Wall Street collapse of September–October 1929 and the Great Depression which followed it were among the most important events of the twentieth century. They made the Second World War possible, though not inevitable, and by undermining confidence in the efficacy of the market and the capitalist system, they helped to explain why the absurdly inefficient and murderous system of Soviet communism survived for so long. Indeed, it could be argued that the ultimate emotional and intellectual consequences of the Great Depression were not finally erased from the mind of h