Slowdown : global economic Maladies

In this stimulating volume, Andrew Brody offers a provocative and original analysis which provides a new understanding of the current crises which enmesh virtually all countries of the globe. Brody pulls together a number of existing theories and develops a uniquely different approach to the theory of growth and economic cycles. His is an essentially disquieting analysis of the dynamics of economic growth-in which he argues that the unusual period of economic prosperity which followed the post. World War II era has now given way to a cycle in which "growth scissors" threaten the foundations of the global economy... to the detriment of advanced capitalist, socialist, and developing countries alike.

Economists, planners, statisticians, government administrators (especially those concerned with economic, industrial and educational policy), and all those concerned with contemporary economic problems and the international political economy will find this volume disturbing-but essential-reading.