An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

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Marc Levinson

An Extraordinary Time

The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

Marc Levinson

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Random House Business Books
18 May 2017

Geopolitics; Economics & Business; Macroeconomics; Economic history

How the economic crisis of the 1970s transformed the course of global history

A Washington Post and Strategy+Business Book of the Year.

Stagnant wages. Feeble growth figures. An angry, disillusioned public. The early 1970s witnessed the arrival of the problems that define the twenty-first century.

In An Extraordinary Time, Marc Levinson investigates how the oil crisis of the 1970s marked a radical turning point in global economics- and paved the way for the political and financial troubles of the present. Tracing the remarkable transformation of the global economy in the years after World War II, Levinson explores how decades of spectacular economic growth ended almost overnight - giving way to an era of uncertainty and political extremism that we are still grappling with. Above all, Levinson shows that we must understand the economic disaster of the 1970s if we want to overcome the problems we face today. By focusing on a pivotal but often overlooked moment in the twentieth century, An Extraordinary Time offers a crucial and timely reappraisal of our age.

'A smoothly written account of the US and the world economy during the 1970s.' Wall Street Journal

'A valuable antidote to all passionately held economic ideologies.' Times Literary Supplement

'Provocative . . . Levinson reminds us how mesmerising the post-war boom really was.' Washington Post

'Lucid, well-paced, and entwined with vivid sketches of economists, central bankers, and politicians.' Publishers Weekly

By: Marc Levinson
Imprint: Random House Business Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9781847941916
ISBN 10: 1847941915
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 18 May 2017
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Marc Levinson is an economist, historian and journalist who writes for publications including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Foreign Affairs. He was previously Senior Fellow for International Business at the Council on Foreign Relations, and Finance and Economics Editor at The Economist. His books include The Box, which was shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America, which the Wall Street Journal named one of the best business books of 2011. Levinson holds a master's degree from Princeton University and a doctorate from the City University of New York.

Reviews for An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy

A smoothly written account of the U.S. and the world economy during the 1970s and parts of the 1980s . . . Mr. Levinson is a smart enough author not to be tempted into some breathless mono-causal account of either the earlier boom or the later slowdown. * Wall Street Journal * An efficiently presented chronology of the global economy since the end of World War II . . . Weaving together data and narrative, [Levinson] shows how productivity growth foundered and the irritant of inflation appeared and would not leave. -- Best Books of 2017 * strategy+business * Provocative . . . Levinson reminds us how mesmerizing the post-World War II boom was. * Washington Post * A valuable antidote to all passionately held economic ideologies. -- Paul Collier * Times Literary Supplement * Levinson, an economist and ex-journalist . . . has the virtues of both - an eye for detail and an understanding of the broader picture. -- Best Economics Books of 2016 * Washington Post *