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I. General Surveys -- The Great Crash of October, 1929 -- International Consequences of the Great Crisis -- The Influence of the Great Depression on Economic Theory -- II. Political Aspects of the Great Depression -- Government Action against the Great Depression -- Europe and the Great Crisis -- The Depression and World Policy -- Waiting for The World Revolution: Soviet Reactions to the Great Depression -- III. Specific Economic Factors in the Great Depression -- Agriculture in the Great Depression. World Market Developments and European Protectionism -- Agriculture in the Industrial Economies of the West during the Great Depression, with Special Reference to the United States -- Business in the Great Depression -- IV. Economic effects of the great depression outside the U.S.A. and Western Europe -- The United States and the Non-European Periphery during the Early Years of the Great Depression -- Then Came the Great Depression. Japan's Interwar Years -- The British Empire Economies in the Great Depression -- The Impact of the Great Depression on Eastern Europe -- V. Social And Sociological Aspects of the Great Depression -- Government, Labour and Trade Unions -- Trade Unions and the World Economic Crisis. The Case of Germany -- The Depression and the Intellectuals -- Biographical Notes on Contributors.

I. The interdecennial fluctuations of the Antwerp economy and their impact on Brabant and Flanders (1356–1619) -- I: The real significance of the dominance of Flanders and the difficulties of monetary recovery (1356–1405) -- II: The last flowering of the medieval economy (1406–1437) -- III: The failure of the medieval economy and the slow emergence of modern conditions (1438–1477) -- IV: Political chaos (1477–1492) -- V: Antwerp's emergence as the metropolis of Western Europe (c. 1493–1520) -- VI: The decisive years (1521–c. 1550) -- VII: The slowing down of commercial expansion offset by industrial growth (c. 1551–1572) -- VIII: Crisis in the Netherlands and the final phase of Antwerp's decline (1572–1587) -- Epilogue: The slow but courageous recovery (1588–1619) -- II. Secular trends and structural changes -- I: Agricultural trends in Brabant -- II: Trends in the trade of the Southern Netherlands and Europe -- III: Trends in financial development -- IV: Tendencies in industrial and social structure -- V: Typology of the crises and secular expansion -- VI: The significance of the price trends -- Conclusion.

This monograph presents an in-depth analysis of Belgium's monetary and financial history during the Second World War. Exploring Belgium's financial and business links with Germany, France, The Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the study focuses on the roles played by the Central Bank and private bankers in Brussels, by the Belgian government in exile in London, and by the Belgian minister plenipotentiary in New York. Among the subjects arising are: German attempts to plunder Belgium and Belgian resistance strategies; the peripeteia of the Belgian gold reserve; the role of the Belgian Congo; Belgium's participation in the discussions leading up to the Bretton Woods conference; and the negotiations for creating a Customs Union, blueprint for the 1958 Treaty of Rome. The final part of the book analyzes the famous monetary reform devised by Belgian Minister of Finance Camille Gutt at the liberation of the country in September 1944.