Economic Redemption Or Hard Times

Download or read book Hard Times written by Richard Striner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hard Times presents a comprehensive account of economic depressions in America, from colonial times to the “great recession” that began in 2008. Written in crisp prose for a general audience, the book synthesizes a narrative account—presenting the known facts about how particular depressions started, the effects upon people in different walks of life, the policy debates about what (if anything) to do in order to ameliorate the situation, and how these depressions ended—with analytical commentary on the economic patterns underlying and transcending depressions and the debates among economists and policymakers in regard to their causes. While these economic downturns have created suffering and hardship, Striner also conveys how Americans have always endured and rebounded from hard times.