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A history of the economic analysis of the great depression in America
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ISBN: 9780824036409 0824036409 Year: 1979 Publisher: London Garland

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The economics of the great depression : a twenty-first century look back at the economics of the interwar era.
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ISBN: 9781845421274 1845421272 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cheltenham Edward Elgar

Die grosse Krise in Amerika : vergleichende Studien zur Politischen Sozialgeschichte 1929 - 1939.
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ISBN: 3525359578 9783525359570 Year: 1973 Volume: 6 Publisher: Göttingen Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht

La crise de 1929 et l'émergence américaine
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ISSN: 11585900 ISBN: 213049949X 9782130499497 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,

Understanding economic recovery in the 1930s : endogenous propagation in the Great Depression
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ISBN: 0472113488 9780472113484 Year: 2004 Publisher: Ann Arbor (Mich.) : University of Michigan press,

The New Deal : America's response to the Great Depression
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ISBN: 1577181433 1577181425 9781577181422 9781577181439 Year: 2000 Volume: *3 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Blackwell Publishers

The defining moment : the Great Depression and the American economy in the twentieth century
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ISBN: 0226065898 9780226065892 9786611223144 128122314X 0226066916 9780226066912 Year: 1998 Volume: *16 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of this topic points directly to the Great Depression, the "moment" to which most historians and economists connect the origins of the fiscal, monetary, and social policies that have characterized American government in the second half of the twentieth century. In the most comprehensive collection of essays available on these topics, The Defining Moment poses the question directly: to what extent, if any, was the Depression a watershed period in the history of the American economy? This volume organizes twelve scholars' responses into four categories: fiscal and monetary policies, the economic expansion of government, the innovation and extension of social programs, and the changing international economy. The central focus across the chapters is the well-known alternations to national government during the 1930's. The Defining Moment attempts to evaluate the significance of the past half-century to the American economy, while not omitting reference to the 1930's. The essays consider whether New Deal-style legislation continues to operate today as originally envisioned, whether it altered government and the economy as substantially as did policies inaugurated during World War II, the 1950's, and the 1960's, and whether the legislation had important precedents before the Depression, specifically during World War I. Some chapters find that, surprisingly, in certain areas such as labor organization, the 1930's responses to the Depression contributed less to lasting change in the economy than a traditional view of the time would suggest. On the whole, however, these essays offer testimony to the Depression's legacy as a "defining moment." The large role of today's government and its methods of intervention-from the pursuit of a more active monetary policy to the maintenance and extension of a wide range of insurance for labor and business-derive from the crisis years of the 1930's.

Essays on the Great Depression
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ISBN: 0691016984 9780691016986 0691118205 9786612087172 9786612935176 1282935178 1282087177 1400820278 9781400820276 9780691118208 0691254133 0691259666 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena--all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Bernanke has gathered together his essays on why the Great Depression was so devastating. This broad view shows us that while the Great Depression was an unparalleled disaster, some economies pulled up faster than others, and some made an opportunity out of it. By comparing and contrasting the economic strategies and statistics of the world's nations as they struggled to survive economically, the fundamental lessons of macroeconomics stand out in bold relief against a background of immense human suffering. The essays in this volume present a uniquely coherent view of the economic causes and worldwide propagation of the depression.

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