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Temin, Peter was born on December 17, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry and Annette Temin.
( During the age of Jackson the nation experienced one of...)
During the age of Jackson the nation experienced one of the worst depressions in its history. Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Richard Hofstadter, and other have maintained that Andrew Jackson set off a chain reaction when he vetoed the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States in 1832. This interpretation holds that subsequent removal of deposits from the Bank led to unsound credit expansion and inflation, to unprecedented speculation in public land, to the Panic of 1837, and ultimately to the depression. "Not true," write Professor Temin in this thoroughly researched and documented study which shatters the traditional interpretation of the 1830's. "Jackson's economic policies undoubtedly were not the most enlightened the country has ever seen, but they were by no means disastrous. The inflation and crisis of the 1930's had their origin in events largely beyond Jackson's control and probably would have taken place whether or not he had acted as he did. The economy was not the victim of Jacksonian politics; Jackson's policies were the victims of economic fluctuations."
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(AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganizati...)
AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s. This study reveals the internal decision-making process at AT&T and explains how private and public interests combined to shape corporate and public policy in late 20th-century America. Temin weaves the strands of politics, economics, business, and law into an accessible narrative history that will be of interest to the general reader who wants to know about government business interaction and how it affects American citizens. Temin portrays divestiture as a great experiment in public policy, competition, openness, and international policy. He concludes that the experiment has been a mix of deliberate design and uncontrollable forces whose outcome was not foreseen.
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(AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganizati...)
AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganization in history and has had international repercussions. It was a major development in American economic policy, and a prominent part of the deregulation movement of the late 1970s. This study reveals the internal decision-making process at AT&T and explains how private and public interests combined to shape corporate and public policy in late 20th-century America. Temin weaves the strands of politics, economics, business, and law into an accessible narrative history that will be of interest to the general reader who wants to know about government business interaction and how it affects American citizens. Temin portrays divestiture as a great experiment in public policy, competition, openness, and international policy. He concludes that the experiment has been a mix of deliberate design and uncontrollable forces whose outcome was not foreseen.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521389291/?tag=2022091-20
( Do events of the 1930s carry a message for the 1990s? L...)
Do events of the 1930s carry a message for the 1990s? Lessons from the Great Depression provides an integrated view of the depression, covering the experience in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. It describes the causes of the depression, why it was so widespread and prolonged, and what brought about eventual recovery. Peter Temin also finds parallels in recent history, in the relentless deflationary course followed by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the British government in the early 1980s, and in the dogged adherence by the Reagan administration to policies generated by a discredited economic theory -- supply-side economics.
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(The European Economy Between the Wars provides an authori...)
The European Economy Between the Wars provides an authoritative economic history of Europe in the inter-war period. Placing the Great Depression of 1929-33 and the associated financial crisis at the center of the narrative, the authors comprehensively examine the lead-up to and the consequences of the depression and recovery. The basic approach in this textbook is chronological, and the style is clear and straightforward, accessible to students in a range of disciplines.
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( New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any...)
New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginning--as immigration ground to a halt in the eighteenth century--New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in the mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society. Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by preeminent historians and economists. These essays chart the changing fortunes of entrepreneurs and venturers, businessmen and inventors, and common folk toiling in fields, in factories, and in air-conditioned offices. The authors describe how, short of staple crops, colonial New Englanders turned to the sea and built an empire; and how the region became the earliest home of the textile industry as commercial fortunes underwrote new industries in the nineteenth century. They show us the region as it grew ahead of the rest of the country and as the rest of the United States caught up. And they trace the transformation of New England's products and exports from cotton textiles and machine tools to such intangible goods as education and software. Concluding short essays also put forward surprising but persuasive arguments--for instance, that slavery, while not prominent in colonial New England, was a critical part of the economy; and that the federal government played a crucial role in the development of the region's industrial skills.
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Temin, Peter was born on December 17, 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Henry and Annette Temin.
Bachelor of Arts Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1959. Doctor of Philosophy Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, 1964.
Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA,
2. Assistant Professor, Association Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA,
7, 1967-1970. Research Association, National Bureau of Economie Research, New York, New York, United States of America,
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Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, since 1970.
( Do events of the 1930s carry a message for the 1990s? L...)
(A history of the federal regulation of the sale and use o...)
(The European Economy Between the Wars provides an authori...)
(AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganizati...)
(AT&T's divestiture was the largest corporate reorganizati...)
( During the age of Jackson the nation experienced one of...)
( New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any...)
Author: Iron and Steel in Nineteenth Century America, 1964, The Jacksonian Economy, 1969, Causal Factors in American Economic Growth in the 19th Century, 1975, Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?, 1976, Taking Your Medicine: Drug Regulation in the United States, 1980, The Fall of the Bell System, 1987, Lessons from the Great Depression, 1989, Inside the Business Enterprise, 1991, (with C. Feinstein and G. Toniolo) The European Economy Between The Wars, 1997, Engines of Enterprise: An Economic History of New England, 2000, The World Economy Between The Wars, (with S. Feinstein) Resonable Rx: How to Lower Drug Prices.
A contributor to the ‘new economic history’. This analysis typically starts with a formal model of some aspects of economic behaviour, assembles historical data for use in the model, and draws conclusions by joining the data and the model. Work has centred on questions of monetary history, technical change, and industrial organisation in nineteenthand twentieth-century America.
Member American Economic Association, Economic History Association, Economic History Society, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Charlotte Brucar Fox, August 21, 1966. Children: Elizabeth Sara, Melanie Wynn.