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The Great Recession & the Great Depression [PDF]
Daedalus, 2010 In the depths of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes wrote that “[p]racticalmen, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”1 This acute observation is applicable to our current Great Recession as well. In fact, the newly discredited ideas are not all that different
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Working Together: Women and Men on the Amish Family Farm in 1930s Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
The Journal of Amish and Plain Anabaptist Studies, 2020 Old Order Amish men did not own gasoline tractors or other large power farm implements to amplify their manhood, and Amish women did not own mechanical household appliances to symbolize their feminine role as housekeepers.
Katherine Jellison, Steven Reschly
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Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2019 This paper raises the question as to whether the great depression after 1873 had a direct impact on meat supply and consumption in Vienna. Based on newspaper articles, official statistics, municipal records, and consumption figures, this article will ...
Maximilian Martsch
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Modeling Great Depressions: The Depression in Finland in the 1990s [PDF]
Quarterly Review, 2007 This article is a primer on the great depressions methodology developed by Cole and Ohanian (1999, 2007) and Kehoe and Prescott (2002, 2007). We use growth accounting and simple dynamic general equilibrium models to study the depression that occurred in Finland in the early 1990s.
Juan Carlos Conesa +2 more
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Politics and Society in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon
AmLitThis essay examines the vision of society presented in Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon (1930). In contrast to critics who argue that Hammett brought a Marxist perspective to the novel, reflecting his support to the Communist Party later in the ...
Zumoff, Jacob A.
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Transmission of the Great Depression [PDF]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1993 To a first approximation, the question of how the Great Depression spread from country to country is short and straightforward: fixed exchange rates under the gold standard transmitted negative demand shocks. The first half of this paper will describe current thinking about the relationship between the gold standard and the Great Depression.
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“Everything Around Here Is Worn Out”: Broadway Hit Tobacco Road, 1933 [PDF]
Литература двух АмерикThe article analyzes production Tobacco Road based on the play by Jack Kirkland, a stage version of Erskine Caldwell’s novel. Staged at the height of the Great Depression, this production had been run on stage for nine years until 1947, remaining the ...
Yulia A. Kleiman
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Original sin and the great depression
Journal of International Economics, 2020 Was foreign currency denominated debt a determinant of exchange rate and monetary policy during the Great Depression? Policy makers of the day thought so. High-frequency bond price data show depreciation was associated with elevated risk premia on public debt.
Bordo, MD, Meissner, CM
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1800’lerin Küresel Krizleri, Büyük Depresyon ve 2008 Krizi
İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2017 Finansal krizler dünya ekonomik düzenini sarsan afetlerdir. Bu afetler toplumların yaşam standartlarını da etkilemektedir. 18. yy.’dan itibaren ulus devletlerin ortaya çıkışı ulusal ekonomileri de birbirine yakınlaştırmıştır.
Mustafa Emre Akbaş
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Brazilian Journal of Political EconomyThe paper aims to establish interfaces between the Great Depression of the 1930s under the Gold Standard and the recent European Crisis under the Euro. It is argued that, despite their specificities, both crises revealed the potentially harmful effects ...
GIULIANO CONTENTO DE OLIVEIRA +1 more
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