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A great leap forward : 1930s Depression and U.S. economic growth /

This bold re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that productive capacity grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during the Second...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Field, Alexander J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011.
Series:Yale series in economic and financial history.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The most technologically progressive decade of the century
  • The interwar years
  • The Second World War
  • The Golden Age and beyond
  • The information technology boom
  • Fin de Siecle : the late nineteenth century in the mirror of the twentieth
  • Procyclical TFP
  • The equipment hypothesis
  • General-purpose technologies
  • Financial fragility and recovery
  • Uncontrolled land development and the duration of the Depression
  • Do economic downturns have a silver lining?