Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

World War I and the pre-World War I era --
First and second bank of the United States / Eric Lomazoff --
The panic of 1873 / Elmus Wicker --
Gold resumption and the deflation of the 1870s / Sierre Siklos and Richard Burdekin --
Great merger wave / AnthonY O\'Brien --
The panic of 1893 / Mark Carlson --
The panic of 1907 / Ellis Tallman --
The founding of the federal reserve system / Mark Toma --
World War I / Jari Eloranta --
The classical gold standard / Kris Mitchener --
The interwar era and World War II --
The 1920s / Martha Olney --
The crash of 1929 / Howard Bierman --
The British abandonment of the gold standard / Michael Kitson --
The Great Depression 1929-33 / Randall Parker --
The Great Depression, microeconomics of the new deal / Price Fishback --
The Great Depression, macroeconomics of the new deal / Lee Ohanian --
Monetary policy during the Great Depression / Jim Butkiewicz --
World War II / Robert Higgs --
Post-World War II era --
The Marshall plan / Nick Crafts --
Urban riots of the 1960s / Bill Collins --
The great inflation / Robert Hetzel --
History of oil shocks / James Hamilton --
The rise and fall of the Phillips curve in the 1960s and 1970s / Arnold Kling --
The Rise and Fall of the Bretton Woods System / Barry Eichengreen --
The 1980s disinflation / Allan Meltzer --
The rise of China / Loren Brandt --
The rise of India / Areendam Chanda --
The bust and stagnation of Japan / Etsuro Shioji --
The fall of the Soviet Union / Rick Ericson --
The development of trade institutions and the advent of globalization / by Teresa Gramm --
The contemporary era --
World hyperinflations / Steve Hanke and Nicholas Krus --
The financial panic of 2008 / Gary Gorton and Andrew Metrick --
Monetary policy in the crisis of 2008 and beyond / W.D. McMillin --
Rise of mass market merchandisers / Art Carden --
Government bailouts / Robert Wright --
Entitlements, debt and deficits / John Seater.