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The defining moment : the Great Depression and the American economy in the twentieth century /

In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of this topic points directly to the Great Depression, the "moment" to which most historians and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bordo, Michael D., Goldin, Claudia Dale, White, Eugene Nelson, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©1998.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research project report.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The defining moment hypothesis : the editors' introduction / Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White
  • Was the great depression a watershed for American monetary policy? / Charles W. Calomiris and David C. Wheelock
  • Fiscal policy in the shadow of the Great Depression / J. Bradford De Long
  • The legacy of deposit insurance : the growth, spread, and cost of insuring financial intermediaries / Eugene N. White
  • By way of analogy : the expansion of the federal government in the 1930s / Hugh Rockoff
  • The impact of the New Deal on American federalism / John Joseph Wallis and Wallace E. Oates
  • The Great Depression and the regulating state : federal government regulation of agriculture, 1884-1970 / Gary D. Libecap
  • A distinctive system : origins and impact of U.S. unemployment compensation / Katherine Baicker, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz
  • Spurts in union growth : defining moments and social processes / Richard B. Freeman
  • The genesis and evolution of social security / Jeffrey A. Miron and David N. Weil
  • From Smoot-Hawley to reciprocal trade agreements : changing the course of U.S. trade policy in the 1930s / Douglas A. Irwin
  • The Great Depression as a watershed : international capital mobility over the long run / Maurice Obstfeld and Alan M. Taylor
  • Implications of the Great Depression for the development of the international monetary system / Michael D. Bordo and Barry Eichengreen.