Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

The purpose of The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History is to provide readers with a relative brief and cogent explanation of the major occurrences in the field: charting economic history from the nineteenth to twenty first centuries.

The book contains a host of pithy but comprehensive essays written by top scholars focusing on the economics of individual events in economic history and the episodic nature of events, the collection of which over time make up our historical economic record.

 The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and how where we are today fits in this historical timeline. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date research and are written by well-known economists who are authorities on their subjects.

The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History was written with the intent of presenting the professional consensus in explaining the economics driving these historical events.