Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall

Farrell, Chris

ISBN 10: 0060576456 / ISBN 13: 9780060576455

Published by HarperBusiness, New York, 2004

About this Item

First printing, full number line. Signed by the author on the half-title page: "Chris Farrell." The book is unmarked; spine slant; corners sharp, head of spine bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $22.95); Brodart protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall
• Publisher: HarperBusiness, New York
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060576456
• ISBN 13: 9780060576455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

An analysis of the benefits and consequences of deflation considers the possible link between significant historical deflation and the Great Depression, citing the causes of deflation while arguing for controlled and moderate deflation as a natural part of the economic cycle. 20,000 first printing.

About the Author

Chris Farrell, contributing economics editor at BusinessWeek, is an award-winning journalist who started writing about the New Economy in the early 1990s. His cover stories include "Stuck," "Why Are We So Afraid of Growth?," "The Economics of Aging," "Productivity to the Rescue," and "IPO Capitalism." In 1999 and 2000 he received the Gerald Loeb Award in business journalism for two radio documentaries, "The World Turned Upside Down" and "Minnesota in the Dot.com Age." He is cohost and economics editor for Sound Money, a one-hour weekly personal finance call-in show produced by Minnesota Public Radio and syndicated nationally. Farrell is chief economics correspondent for the public radio documentary unit American RadioWorks and a regular commentator for Marketplace. He was host and executive editor of Right on the Money!, a nationally syndicated half-hour public television show, and author of Right on the Money!: Taking Control of Your Personal Finances.