Arunabh Ghosh, Making It Count. Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People’s Republic of China

In the 1930s, the image of the Kindleberger spiral, named after the American economist who popularised it in the Monthly Report of the Austrian Business Cycle Research Institute, became one of the most famous depictions of the Great Depression. The illustration resembles a bullseye, with concentric...

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Veröffentlicht: Revue d’histoire des sciences humaines 2022
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Zusammenfassung:In the 1930s, the image of the Kindleberger spiral, named after the American economist who popularised it in the Monthly Report of the Austrian Business Cycle Research Institute, became one of the most famous depictions of the Great Depression. The illustration resembles a bullseye, with concentric circles representing the rapid decline in the volume of world trade from January 1929 to June 1933. In the spring of 2020, with the covid-19 pandemic taking a growing toll on the global economy, p...