The Great Depression Revisited: Essays on the Economics of the Thirties

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Abstract

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.