TY - BOOK AU - Levinson,Marc TI - An extraordinary time: the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy SN - 9781847941916 (pbk.) : U1 - 330.9'047 23 PY - 2017/// CY - London PB - RH Business Books KW - Economic history KW - 1971-1990 KW - 1990- KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - 1993- KW - Influence KW - Economics KW - eflch KW - ukslc N1 - Originally published: 2016; Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - In 'An Extraordinary Time', Marc Levinson investigates how the oil crisis of the 1970s marked a radical turning point in global economics and paved the way for the political and financial troubles of the present. Tracing the remarkable transformation of the global economy in the years after World War II, Levinson explores how decades of spectacular economic growth ended almost overnight - giving way to an era of uncertainty and political extremism that we are still grappling with ER -