Economic Cycles, Crises, and the Global Periphery

This thought—provoking monograph analyzes long— medium— and short—term global cycles of prosperity, recession, and depression, plotting them against centuries of important world events. Major research on economic and political cycles is integrated to clarify evolving relationships between the global center and its periphery as well as current worldwide economic upheavals and potential future developments. Central to this survey are successive waves of industrial and, later, technological an...