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Children of the Great Depression: Social Change in Life Experience

, 1999
Crisis And Adaptation: An Introduction * The Depression Experience * Adaptations to Economic Deprivation Coming Of Age In The Depression * Economic Deprivation and Family Status * Children in the Household Economy * Family Relations * Status Change and ...
G. Elder
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The Great Depression [PDF]

, 2000
This history of the Great Depression was prepared for The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. It describes real and imagined causes of the Depression, bank failures and deflation, the Fed and the gold standard, the start of recovery, the first New Deal, and the second New Deal.
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Consumption in the Great Depression

Journal of Political Economy, 1978
This paper criticizes Temin's hypothesis that the Great Depression was caused by an exogenous decline in consumption in 1930. Using Temin's own consumption function, as well as two other ones on the levels of the data, there is little support for Temin's hypothesis.
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Comment on “The Great Depression”

The Tocqueville Review/La revue Tocqueville, 2009
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Great Depression, the

2013
From roughly 1929 through 1941 the United States experienced the most serious economic crisis in its history. At its worst, in the winter of 1932–3, the US gross domestic product shrunk 46%, investment in the economy dropped 98%, and unemployment hovered around 25%.
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Bank Leverage and Regulatory Regimes: Evidence from the Great Depression and Great Recession

, 2016
In the boom before the Great Depression, capital requirements for commercial banks were low and fixed. Bankers faced double liability. Failing banks were not bailed out.
Christoffer Koch, Gary A. Richardson, P. V. Horn   +2 more
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Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

, 1992
This book is a reassessment of the international monetary crises of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyses the responses of the world economic powers to the Depression and how new monetary policies set
A. Field, Barry Eichengreen
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Technology Shocks and the Great Depression

, 2016
Standard productivity measures indicate large fluctuations in technology during the Great Depression. This article's historical technology series (1892–1966), controlled for aggregation effects, varying input utilization, non-constant returns, and ...
Shingo Watanabe
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The Great Depression(s) of 1929-1933 and 2007-2009? Parallels, Differences and Policy Lessons

, 2015
This paper provides a comparative analysis of the Great Depression (1929-1933) and the Great Financial Crisis (2007-2009) by contrasting the crises' main driving forces and how they relate to each other with respect to the United States.
P. Eigner, Thomas S. Umlauft
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Marxian Economics and the Great Depression

History of Political Economy, 1990
The Great Depression was by far the most severe economic crisis in the history of capitalism. In the United States real GNP fell by 9.9 per cent in 1930, a further 7.7 per cent in 1931, and by 14.8 per cent in 1932. In the latter year industrial production in both Germany and the US was no less than 47 per cent below its 1929 level (for the other ...
John E. King, Michael Howard
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