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In many ways, the tulip mania was more of a then-unknown socio-economic phenomenon than a significant economic crisis. It had no critical influence on the prosperity of the Dutch Republic , which was one of the world's leading economic and financial powers in the 17th century, with the highest per capita income in the world from about 1600 to ...
The Keynesian approach attempts to stay strictly within the economic sphere and describes 'boom' and 'bust' cycles that balance out. Marx observed and theorised economic crisis as necessarily developing out of the contradictions arising from the dynamics of capitalist production relations.
An example Soros cites is the procyclical nature of lending, that is, the willingness of banks to ease lending standards for real estate loans when prices are rising, then raising standards when real estate prices are falling, reinforcing the boom and bust cycle. He further suggests that property price inflation is essentially a reflexive ...
"Cycles of History, Boom and Bust". San Diego: Financial Sense. Archived from the original on 2009-01-10 Weekly Column from 11.09.2007 predicting a major turning-point between 2007 and 2009 and the start of a Great Depression. Nefiodow, Leo A. & Simone (2014). The Sixth Kondratieff: The New Long Wave of the Global Economy. Sankt Augustin ...
During the 19th century, the United States experienced frequent boom and bust cycles. This period was characterized by short, frequent periods of expansion, typically punctuated by periods of sharp recession. This cyclical pattern continued through the Great Depression. Economic growth since 1945 has been more stable with fewer recessions when ...
This is a KFF Health News story. Even as federal aid poured into state budgets in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, public health leaders warned of a boom-and-bust funding cycle on the horizon as ...
The Kuznets swing (or Kuznets cycle) is a claimed medium-range economic wave with a period of 15–25 years identified in 1930 by Simon Kuznets. [1] Kuznets connected these waves with demographic processes, in particular with immigrant inflows/outflows and the changes in construction intensity that they caused, that is why he denoted them as "demographic" or "building" cycles/swings.
An economic expansion is an increase in the level of economic activity, and of the goods and services available. It is a period of economic growth as measured (for example) by a rise in real GDP.