Policy Responses to the Interwar Economic Crisis : Contending Ideas of the Economy （2022）

Türegün, Adnan

Springer Nature Switzerland AG（2023/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 294 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783030969554
• DDC分類 338.9

Full Description

This book is about national economic policy responses to the Great Depression of the interwar period. Taking off from a generally liberal starting point in the 1920s, states diverged greatly in their responses. Some were daring while others remained conservative. The two groups further differed among themselves in both degree and kind. The book gives a certain shape to this messy reality by identifying broad policy patterns (paradigms), and offers an explanation of it which emphasizes the ideational disposition of policy actors while recognizing the context that limits what they can do. More specifically, it argues that the ideas held by rulers and the strategies they consequently developed regarding three major groups of interest - business, labour, and, most critically, agrarians - largely determined economic policy variation across nations.

Contents

Preface.- 1. The Interwar Economic Crisis in Comparative Research Perspective.- 2. Limits of the Possible for Economic Policy Choice.- 3. Protectionism: A Safe Haven or Missed Opportunity?.- 4. Proto-Fordism: Seizing the Moment under Democracy.- 5. Neomercantilism, Mark I, under Dictatorship with an Agro-Industrial Base.- 6. Neomercantilism, Mark II, under Dictatorship of the Bureaucracy.- 7. Conclusion.