MACRO ECONOMICS RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT Economic "crises" occurred throughout the 19th century. By the latter part of the century, a number of observers had come to the conclusion that there was a regular, wavelike pattern to crises, and they called this pattern the business cycle. A cycle with its regular and periodic fluctuations needed an explanation. What caused the pattern? What forces determined the length and amplitude of the waves? Could the cycle be eliminated? Business …showed first 75 words of 868 total…

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