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03400aam a22004698i 4500 001 6E85921EB60311E6ADDB0DB5DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20240315010227 008 160415s2016 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2016017970 020 $a 0465061982 020 $a 9780465061983 035 $a (OCoLC)945232333 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a HC54 $b .L398 2016 082 00 $a 330.9/045 $2 23 084 $a HIS037000 $a BUS023000 $a POL010000 $a HIS037000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Levinson, Marc, $e author. 245 13 $a An extraordinary time : $b the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy / $c Marc Levinson. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 1608 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2016. 300 $a vii, 326 pages; $c 24 cm 520 $a "AFTER World War II, the global economy experienced a golden age. As the rubble in cities like Berlin and Tokyo gave way to millions of new homes and businesses, incomes skyrocketed, and consumers rushed to purchase cars, electricity, indoor plumbing, and higher education. Between 1950 and 1973, Japan's per capita income rose nearly 600 percent; Germany's economy quadrupled during the same period. And in steel towns and manufacturing centers across the United States, people discovered a new freedom of mobility--social and physical--that had long eluded them. In An Extraordinary Time, acclaimed economic historian Marc Levinson describes how this age of miraculous growth and prosperity suddenly evaporated in the early 1970s, giving way to an era of anxietY and political extremism. Levinson argues that the boom years were really just that: a anomaly, and not one likely to be repeated. Slow economic growth is actually the norm, and the economy simply cannot be controlled in the ways that we would like--no matter what economists and politicians may say. The forces that had driven a quarter-century of rapid economic growth had simply played themselves out, while at the same time the Bretton Woods system of fixed international exchange rates--a structure that had been in place since 1944--collapsed, leaving exchange rates in the hands of traders and speculators who had no obligation to use them to promote stability. A sweeping reappraisal of the last sixty years of world history from an acclaimed economist, historian, and business reporter, An Extraordinary Time describes how the postwar economic boom dissipated in the early 1970s"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Economic history $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Economic policy $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Capital market $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Foreign exchange rates $x History $y 20th century. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 776 08 $i Online version: $a Levinson, Marc, author. $t Extraordinary time. $b First Edition. $d New York : Basic Books, 2016 $z 9780465096565 $w (DLC) 2016018301 941 $a 8 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210702013052.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20181010010758.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006102323.0 952 $l MXPG943 $d 20180720045344.0 952 $l PNAX964 $d 20180118010236.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802022636.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20170616010756.0 952 $l OOAX232 $d 20161216011200.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6E85921EB60311E6ADDB0DB5DAD10320 994 $a Z0 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search