ILRLE 4480 - Topics in Twentieth Century Economic History

(crosslisted)
(also ECON 4580)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: ILRLE 2400 or ECON 3140.

G. Boyer.

Examines the anatomy of the Great Depression through the experiences of the two most important economies of the time: the United States and Great Britain. Also examines the development of macroeconomic policy in the United States and Britain in the 1920s and 1930s and its evolution in the postwar world, culminating with the decline of Keynesian-style demand management policy under Reagan and Thatcher.