General and periodic crises of overproduction / by Jean Lescure ; edited by D'Maris Coffman, Ali Kabiri and Nicholas Di Liberto ; translated by Nicholas Di Liberto
Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Jean Lescure on the Role of Solidarité in Industrial Economies and Among the Social Sciences -- Early Biography -- The First World War and the Globalization of Crises -- Lescure and Aftalion on Interdependencies in the Economy and the Possibility of General Overproduction Crises -- Methodological Pluralism and Interdependencies in the Social Sciences -- Historical Narrative and Statistical Evidence in Lescure's 'Complex Historical Method'
Lescure's Liberalism and the Role of Government in the Recovery of the 1930s -- Lescure's Complex Historical Method and the Use and Misuse of Statistics -- Are Crises Inevitable and Forecastable? -- Translator's Note -- General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction -- Appendix One: Bibliography of the Works Cited by Jean Lescure -- Appendix Two: Bibliography of the Works of Jean Lescure -- Index
Summary
Jean Lescure's General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2023)
