Crash! : How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked /

"Most measures of the American economy over the past two centuries or so produce a jagged sine wave--"irrationally exuberant" highs leading to painful lows. Bubbles lead to panics, over and over again. Payne has written a short book on the 1920s to demonstrate to undergraduates how th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Payne, Phillip G (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ekonomisk politik.
Ekonomiska förhållanden.
Börskraschen 1929.
Depression (ekonomi)
Weltwirtschaftskrise > 1929-1932
Economic policy.
Economic history.
Depressions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
HISTORY > United States > General.
Krach, 1929.
Crises economiques > 1929 > États-Unis.
Stock Market Crash, 1929.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
United States.
États-Unis > Politique economique > Jusqu'à 1933.
États-Unis > Conditions economiques > 1918-1945.
United States > Economic policy > To 1933.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: How panic spreads
  • How in the 1920s the American economy promoted speculation
  • How business culture encouraged consumer spending
  • How the market grew bullish
  • How the economy crashed
  • How the New Deal changed the financial sector
  • Epilogue: How this time is (not) different.

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