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Introductory Macroeconomics, 1981-82

Name: Introductory Macroeconomics, 1981-82
Author: Tom Lutz
ISBN: 9780801498787

by Lutz, Tom

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Hysteria, insomnia, hypochondria, asthma, skin rashes, hay fever, premature baldness, inebriety, nervous exhaustion, brain-collapse--all were symptoms of neurasthenia, the bizarre psychophysiological illness that plagued America's intellectual and economic elite around the turn of the century.

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Paper edition of a 1991 study. The subject is "a cultural complex--a disease called neurasthenia" (from the preface), examined at a specific historical "moment"--1903. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)