Peter L Bernstein

Biographic Data

ID3744669
NAMEPeter L Bernstein
GIVEN NAMESPeter L
FAMILY NAMEBernstein
SIGNATUREBERNSTEIN P L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1960
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2005
H-INDEX2

  • Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation

    Walter Russell Mead, Peter L BernsteinARTICLEForeign Affairs2005Cited by: 3

    The building of the Erie Canal in the first quarter of the nineteenth century is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Featuring a rich cast of characters, including not only political visionaries like Washington and Jefferson but also a huge platoon of Irish diggers as well as the canal's first travellers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanisation, economic growth and global…

  • The Worldly Philosopher Behind The Worldly Philosophers

    Peter L BernsteinARTICLESocial research2004

    Peter L. Bernstein The Worldly Philosopher Behind The Worldly Philosophers BOB H EILBRONER AND I BECAM E BEST FRIEN D S AT THE AGE OF ABOUT six. From that point forward, best has only become better. Bob was a worldly philosopher from the start. Let me give just one example. When I was nine or ten years old, my aunt and uncle took me to see a play called Up Pops the Devil. In the course of the story, the female protagonist tells a friend she is pr…

  • The Power of Gold: The History of an Obsession

    Open AccessPeter J Hugill, Peter L BernsteinARTICLEGeographical Review2002Cited by: 13

    Prologue: The Supreme Possession. A METAL FOR ALL SEASONS. Get Gold at All Hazards. Midas's Wish and the Creatures of Pure Chance. Darius's Bathtub and the Cackling of the Geese. The Symbol and the Faith. Gold, Salt, and the Blessed Town. The Legacy of Eoba, Babba, and Udd. The Great Chain Reaction. The Disintegrating Age and the King's Ransoms. The Sacred Thirst. THE PATH TO TRIUMPH. The Fatal Poison and Private Money. The Asian Necropolis and H…

  • Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises

    Open AccessCharles Poor Kindleberger, Peter L Bernstein et al.BOOKManias, Panics and Crashes2000

    Manias, Panics and Crashes was first published in 1978, and dealt with financial crises that were, for the most part, before World War II. Black Monday of October 1987, along with more research especi

  • National Deficits and Debt

    A Thompson, Robert L Heilbroner et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1990

  • Reply to Du Boff; Rejoinder by Du Boff; Reply to Albert Prago

    Peter Bernstein, Peter L Bernstein et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review1990

    We write to reply to the singularly insensitive review by Richard Du Boff of our book The Debt and the Deficit (MR, December 1989). Our book begins from, and is addressed to, a single argument on which all stands or falls: that the deficit is ill understood, and for that reason constitutes a major barrier against effective social action in this country. Perhaps this is not the view of readers of the Monthly Review, who are not alarmed at the defi…

  • The Debt and the Deficit: False Alarms/Real Possibilities

    William Diebold, Robert L Heilbroner et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1989Cited by: 2

  • The Response of Income Velocity to Interest Rate Changes: A Comment

    Peter L BernsteinARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…1960