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The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Current Crisis [PDF]

, 2009
In the past year, a rising tide of antagonism to the New Deal has formed among some economists and writers, claiming that the New Deal policies made the Great Depression worse. Is there any basis in fact to New Deal denialism?
Field, Alexander J.
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The great demand depression [PDF]

, 2001
This paper entertains the notion that disturbances on the demand side play a central role in our understanding of the Great Depression. In fact, from Euler equation residuals we are able to identify a series of unusually large negative demand shocks that appeared to have hit the U. S. economy during the 1930s.
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The collapse of the Graaff-Reinet board of executors during the great depression (1929-1934)

Contree
The world-wide economic depression of 1929-1934 also bore down heavily on small-town financial institutions. A case in point was that of the Graaff-Reinet Board of Executors (established 1856) and the Midland Agency and Trust Company of Graaff-Reinet.
A de V. Minnaar
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Thoughts About the Сrisis

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2012
The author analyses the causes and possible consequences of the actual financial and economic crisis, expresses the opinion that it can take a form of chronic disease and have significant duration of time.
A. A. Orlov
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Great Expectations and the End of the Depression [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
This paper suggests that the US recovery from the Great Depression was driven by a shift in expectations. This shift was caused by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's policy actions. On the monetary policy side, Roosevelt abolished the gold standard and—even more importantly—announced the explicit objective of inflating the price level to pre ...
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México en la Conferencia Económica Mundial de Londres: el Acuerdo de la Plata de 1933

América Latina en la Historia Económica, 2010
Pese a que a finales del mes de julio de 1933 la Conferencia Económica de Londres fue prácticamente clausurada al entrar en receso, México y otros países productores o usuarios de plata llegaron allí mismo a un acuerdo que ayudaría a equilibrar el ...
Fabián Herrera León
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“Riffraff” On the Waterfront: A Critical Analysis of Labor Imagery on the Imagined Docks of the Hollywood Dream Factory, 1934–1937

Open Cultural Studies, 2021
At the height of the Great Depression, the American Labor Movement was ascendant as union strongholds and the belief in the power of collective action and labor solidarity were re-asserted. The energy and activism along the west-coast waterfront fomented
Judd Jonathan
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The Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression [PDF]

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1990
This paper argues that the collapse of stock prices in October 1929 generated temporary uncertainty about future income which led consumers to forgo purchases of durable goods. That the Great Crash generated uncertainty is evidenced by the decline in surety expressed by contemporary forecasters. That this uncertainty affected consumer behavior is shown
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Egyptian nationalism in the age of cotton

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
First paragraphs: Our current era of ascending right-wing nationalism is a fitting time for a history of left-wing nationalism. What can an earlier era of left-wing nationalism help us understand about the predicament we face?
Marion Dixon
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Did the Great Depression affect Educational Attainment in the US? [PDF]

The Great Depression is a prime example of a macroeconomic crisis that produced adverse economic and social effects in all spheres of life. The theoretical arguments about the real effects of the Great Depression on education vary.
Kisswani, Khalid
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