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Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s [PDF]

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Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as
Albrecht Ritschl, Monique Ebell
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How to Deal With Economic Depression: Experimental and Theoretical Lessons from the Great Depression

open access: yesEtnoantropološki Problemi, 2016
The purpose of this paper is to explain not only why the Euro Area debt crisis does not subside, but also, why it deepens. We believe that the experience of the Great Depression can help economic theorists and officials to look at the problem from a ...
Ognjen Radonjić
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From starvation to depression: unveiling the link between the great famine and late-life depression

open access: yesBMC Public Health
Background The Great Famine in China from 1959 to 1961 is recognized as one of the most severe social and public health disasters of the 20th century, with profound long-term impacts on the health of survivors, particularly on their mental health.
Lin Guo   +7 more
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The Macroeconomics of the Great Depression: A Comparative Approach [PDF]

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Recently, research on the causes of the Great Depression has shifted from a heavy emphasis on events in the United States to a broader, more comparative approach that examines the interwar experiences of many countries simultaneously.
Ben S. Bernanke
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EFFICIENCY WAGES, INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS, AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION

open access: yesEssays in Economic and Business History, 2003
This paper uses available quantitative and qualitative evidence from the I930s to evaluate two prominent explanations of the wage explosion of the New Deal years of 1933—41: efficiency wages and insider-outsider models. The quantitative evidence includes
Ranjit Dighe
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The current financial crisis: what should we learn from the great depressions of the Twentieth Century? [PDF]

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Studying the experience of countries that have experienced great depressions during the twentieth century teaches us that massive public interventions in the economy to maintain employment and investment during a financial crisis can, if they distort ...
Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba   +1 more
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