The Great Depression, (5 Volume Set)

The Great Depression had a devastating effect on much of the world’s developed economies. (For example, at its nadir, around one-quarter of the US workforce was unemployed. And, in Britain, exports virtually halved by 1933 as international trade collapsed.) The political and cultural consequences of the Great Depression were equally far-reaching.

The ongoing search fully to comprehend the worldwide economic collapse in the 1930s remains a dizzying intellectual challenge (‘the Holy Grail of macroeconomics’ according to Ben Bernanke). Moreover, the current global economic and financial tumult has prompted many economists - as well as scholars from related disciplines - to explore the Great Depression anew in the hope of gaining knowledge on how best to survive the latest desperately serious and sustained global economic slump.

As research in and around the Great Depression flourishes as never before this new addition to Routledge’s Critical Concepts in Economics series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the subject’s vast literature and the continuing explosion in scholarly output. Edited by two leading scholars in the field, this new Routledge Major Work is a five-volume collection of classic and cutting-edge contributions.

With a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, The Great Depression is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued as a vital research tool.

Volume 1

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I : Some classic texts
Chapter 1 : Lionel Robbins, ‘1914-1933’, in The Great Depression
Chapter 2 : Conditions of Recovery’, in The Great Depression
Chapter 3 : Slump and Recovery, 1929–1937 : A Survey of World Economic Affairs
Chapter 4 :  The Great Crash 1929
Chapter 5 : Did Monetary Factors Cause The Great Depression?

Volume 2

Acknowledgements

Part II : The United States
Chapter 6 : An Early Harvard Memorandum on Anti-Depression Policies’, History of Political Economy, 2002
Chapter 7 : Nonmonetary Effects of The Financial Crisis in The Propagation of The Great Depression’, American Economic Review, 1983
Chapter 8 : The Macroeconomics of The Great Depression : A Comparative Approach’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1995
Chapter 9 : Was Expansionary Monetary Policy Feasible During The Great Contraction? An Examination of The Gold Standard Constraint’, National Bureau of Economic Research
Chapter 10 : Could Stable Money Have Averted The Great Contraction?’, National Bureau of Economic Research
Chapter 11 : The Defining Moment HypoThesis’, The Defining Moment : The Great Depression and The American Economy in The Twentieth Century
Chapter 12 : Bank Debts’ and ‘General Recommendations’, The Internal Debts of The United States
Chapter 13 : The Perverse Elasticity of The Federal Reserve System’, The Supply and Control of Money in The United States
Chapter 14 : What Ended The Great Depression?’, Journal of Economic History, 1992
Chapter 15 : The Nation in Depression’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993
Chapter 16 : The Great Crash and The Onset of The Great Depression’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1990

Volume 3

Acknowledgements

Chapter 17 : The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions’, Econometrica, 1933
Chapter 18 : Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1922–33 : A Reinterpretation’, Journal of Political Economy, 1965
Chapter 19 : Exchange Rates and Economic Recovery in The 1930s’, Journal of Economic History, 1985
Chapter 20 : The Smoot–Hawley Tariff : A Quantitative Assessment’, Review of Economics and Statistics, 1998
Chapter 21 : Was The Bank Holiday of 1933 Caused by a Run on The Dollar?’, Journal of Economic History, 1987
Chapter 22 : Member Bank Borrowing and The Fed’s Contractionary Policy During The Great Depression’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1990
Chapter 23 : Monetary and OTher Explanations of The Start of The Great Depression’, Journal of Monetary Economics, 1976
Chapter 24 : Did Monetary Forces Cause The Great Depression? A Review Essay’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1977
Chapter 25 : Monetary Factors in The Great Depression’, Journal of Monetary Economics, 1987
Chapter 26 : Monetarist Interpretations of The Great Depression : An Evaluation and Critique’, in Karl Brunner (ed.), The Great Depression Revisited
Chapter 27 : Understanding 1929–33, The Great Depression Revisited
Chapter 28 : Financial Factors in The Great Depression’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993
Chapter 29 : The Origins and Nature of The Great Slump Revisited’, Economic History Review, 1992
Chapter 30 : New Deal Economic Policy and The Problem of Recovery’, The Great Depression : Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939

Volume 4

Acknowledgements

Part III : UK and Europe
Chapter 31 : Searching for an Explanation of Unemployment in Interwar Britain’, Journal of Political Economy, 1979
Chapter 32 : Vicious and Virtuous Circles : The Political Economy of Unemployment in Interwar UK and USA’, European Journal of Political Economy, 2008
Chapter 33 : What Happened in 1931?, Financial Crises and The World Banking System
Chapter 34 : Debt Management and Interest Rates : The British Stock Conversion of 1932’, Applied Economics, 1986
Chapter 35 : The British Tariff and Industrial Protection in The 1930s’, Economic History Review, 1978
Chapter 36 : The Economic Recovery in The United Kingdom in The 1930
Chapter 37 : Wages and Unemployment in Interwar Britain’, Explorations in Economic History, 1986
Chapter 38 : Diary of The Crisis’, in The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931
Chapter 39 : The Causes of The Financial Crisis’, in The Credit-Anstalt Crisis of 1931
Chapter 40 : The Causes of The German Banking Crisis of 1931’, Economic History Review, 1984
Chapter 41 : The Beginning of The Depression in Germany’, Economic History Review, 1971
Chapter 42 : The Beginning of The Depression in Germany, 1927–30 : Investment and The Capital Market’, Economic History Review, 1983
Chapter 43 : Economists and The Depression’, in The German Slump : Politics and Economics, 1924–1936
Chapter 44 : A Nazi Recovery?’, The German Slump : Politics and Economics, 1924–1936
Chapter 45 : Cars, Roads, and Economic Recovery in Germany, 1932–8’, Economic History Review, 1975
Chapter 46 : The Depression in Sweden and The United States : A Comparison of Causes and Policies’, in Karl Brunner (ed.), The Great Depression Revisited
Chapter 47 : The 1920s and 1930s : Foreign Exchange Policy and Industrial and Financial Restructuring’, A Monetary History of Italy
Chapter 48 : The Depression in France’, Managing The Franc Poincaré : Economic Understanding and Political Constraint in French Monetary Policy, 1928–1936


Volume 5

Acknowledgements

Part IV : General and Rest of World
Chapter 49 : Exchange Fluctuations’, in International Currency Experience : Lessons of The Inter-War Period
Chapter 50 : Review and Conclusion’, International Currency Experience : Lessons of The Inter-War Period
Chapter 51 : International Aspects of The Gold Standard’, International Economics
Chapter 52 : The Midas Touch : The Spread of The Great Depression’, Lessons from The Great Depression : The Lionel Robbins Lectures for 1989
Chapter 53 : Transmission of The Great Depression’, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993
Chapter 54 : The Lessons’, Economic Lessons of The Nineteen-Thirties (a report issued under The auspices of The Royal Institute of International Affairs)
Chapter 55 : National Policies’, in Economic Survey, 1919–1939
Chapter 56 : Introduction to Golden Fetters : The Gold Standard and The Great Depression, 1919–1939
Chapter 57 : The Exchange Rate and The International Transmission of Business Cycle Disturbances : Some Evidence from The Great Depression’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1980
Chapter 58 : The Slide to The Abyss’, in The World in Depression, 1929–1939
Chapter 59 : The Gold Bloc Yields’, in The World in Depression, 1929–1939
Chapter 60 : Role of The International Gold Standard in Propagating The Great Depression’, Contemporary Policy Issues, 1988
Chapter 61 : The Silver Standard : China in The International Monetary System’, China During The Great Depression : Market, State, and The World Economy, 1929–1937
Chapter 62 : Economic Recovery from The Argentine Great Depression : Institutions, Expectations, and The Change of Macroeconomic Regime’, Journal of Economic History, 1999
Chapter 63 : Depression and Recovery in New Zealand, Recovery from The Depression : Australia and The World Economy in The 1930s

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