ABSTRACT
This book aims at investigating from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycle. The project consists in giving an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong) in their context, giving some details on the author of the dictionary entry, and assessing the entry’s (and its author’s) contribution. The broad picture (including the history of these encyclopedic tools) will be examined in the introductory essays.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|163 pages
Introductory
entry 1|24 pages
Introduction
entry 2|27 pages
A brief history of economic dictionaries
entry 3|79 pages
Naming crises
entry 4|32 pages
Dictionary reconstructions of the history of the theories of crises and cycles
part II|275 pages
The classic dictionaries
entry 5|10 pages
Between progress and decline
entry 6|20 pages
The analysis of crises in early Factors that affect learning French dictionaries and encyclopaedias
entry 7|12 pages
Wilhelm Roscher's crises theory
entry 8|16 pages
Charles Coquelin
entry 9|13 pages
Commercial crisis and credit in the first Spanish general encyclopaedia (1851–1855)
entry 10|11 pages
Expectations and crises in Auguste Ott's Dictionnaire des sciences politiques et sociales
entry 11|16 pages
Gerolamo Boccardo on internally generated commercial crises
entry 12|21 pages
Clément Juglar (1863–1891)
entry 13|21 pages
Henry D. Macleod's Dictionary of political economy
entry 14|13 pages
Adolf Wagner
entry 15|12 pages
Émile de Laveleye
entry 16|11 pages
Of the ‘old' Palgrave entries on crises
entry 17|18 pages
From crises to cycles
entry 18|13 pages
Heinrich Herkner
entry 19|11 pages
Wilhelm Lexis
entry 20|16 pages
Arthur Spiethoff
entry 21|10 pages
Konyus's ‘Economic conjuncture' in the Granat encyclopaedia
entry 22|16 pages
Wesley Mitchell, Arthur Burns and Trygve Haavelmo on business cycles
entry 23|14 pages
Tinbergen on dynamics and conjuncture in Stridiron's Bedrijfseconomische encyclopedie
part III|107 pages
The recent dictionaries
entry 24|20 pages
Nikolai Kondratiev and long waves in recent dictionaries and encyclopaedias
entry 25|22 pages
Political business cycles
entry 26|16 pages
Nonlinear business cycles in recent dictionaries
entry 27|25 pages
An assessment of real business cycles in recent dictionaries
entry 28|23 pages
Back to crises
entry 29|69 pages
A bibliography of specialized dictionaries of economics and related subjects*
