Over at Grasping Reality: Barry Eichengreen’s “Hall of Mirrors”
Why Am I Not Surprised?: Barry Eichengreen’s Superb “Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History” (Brad DeLong’s Grasping Reality…): What is best in life?
What is best in life is to spend the 11 hours of a Northern Hemisphere polar winter’s night one spends in the belly of an A340-300 in transit from SFX to ZRH (a) eating Swiss chocolate, and (b) reading Barry Eichengreen’s (2015) brilliant and superb Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, The Great Recession, and the Uses-and Misuses-of History (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 0199392005).
More–hopefully much more–to follow…