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The Economics of the Great Depression

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  • Mark Wheeler
    (Western Michigan University)

Abstract

This book contributes to our understanding of the Great Depression's immediate and long-term impacts on the American economy. Editor Mark Wheeler has gathered six scholars from a range of subdisciplines within economics who, together, offer a diverse look at the Depressions's effects on the nation's GDP, workers and labor markets, and monetary policy.

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  • Mark Wheeler (ed.), 1998. "The Economics of the Great Depression," Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, number egd, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:upj:ubooks:egd
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    1. Paul M. Sweezy, 1939. "Demand Under Conditions of Oligopoly," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 47(4), pages 568-568.
    2. Christina D. Romer, 1988. "The Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression," NBER Working Papers 2639, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    Keywords

    great depression; monetary policy; economic cycles; bretton woods; gold standard;
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    JEL classification:

    • E3 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles
    • N1 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations

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