Author: Charles Poor Kindleberger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055919
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith
The World in Depression, 1929-1939
Author: Charles Poor Kindleberger
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055919
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520055919
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith
The Global Impact of the Great Depression 1929-1939
Author: Dietmar Rothermund
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134815689
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Dietmar Rothermund broadens the conventional focus of the great depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. He explains key areas, such as Keynesian theory and the role of the international gold standard.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134815689
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Dietmar Rothermund broadens the conventional focus of the great depression to include its impact on the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. He explains key areas, such as Keynesian theory and the role of the international gold standard.
A Rabble of Dead Money
Author: Charles R. Morris
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America -- with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies -- certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but not a depression. The totality of the collapse shocked the nation, and its duration scarred generations to come. In this lucid and fast-paced account of the cataclysm, award-winning writer Charles R. Morris pulls together the intricate threads of policy, ideology, international hatreds, and sheer individual cantankerousness that finally pushed the world economy over the brink and into a depression. While Morris anchors his narrative in the United States, he also fully investigates the poisonous political atmosphere of postwar Europe to reveal how treacherous the environment of the global economy was. It took heroic financial mismanagement, a glut-induced global collapse in agricultural prices, and a self-inflicted crash in world trade to cause the Great Depression. Deeply researched and vividly told, A Rabble of Dead Money anatomizes history's greatest economic catastrophe -- while noting the uncanny echoes for the present.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610395352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
The Great Crash of 1929 profoundly disrupted the United States' confident march toward becoming the world's superpower. The breakneck growth of 1920s America -- with its boom in automobiles, electricity, credit lines, radio, and movies -- certainly presaged a serious recession by the decade's end, but not a depression. The totality of the collapse shocked the nation, and its duration scarred generations to come. In this lucid and fast-paced account of the cataclysm, award-winning writer Charles R. Morris pulls together the intricate threads of policy, ideology, international hatreds, and sheer individual cantankerousness that finally pushed the world economy over the brink and into a depression. While Morris anchors his narrative in the United States, he also fully investigates the poisonous political atmosphere of postwar Europe to reveal how treacherous the environment of the global economy was. It took heroic financial mismanagement, a glut-induced global collapse in agricultural prices, and a self-inflicted crash in world trade to cause the Great Depression. Deeply researched and vividly told, A Rabble of Dead Money anatomizes history's greatest economic catastrophe -- while noting the uncanny echoes for the present.
The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939
Author: Patricia Clavin
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN: 9780333606803
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Patricia Clavin offers a comparative study of the origins, course and consequences of the deepest economic crisis in modern European history. Written with the non-economist in mind, the book examines recent ideas on the cause of the Great Depression.
Publisher: MacMillan
ISBN: 9780333606803
Category : Depressions
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Patricia Clavin offers a comparative study of the origins, course and consequences of the deepest economic crisis in modern European history. Written with the non-economist in mind, the book examines recent ideas on the cause of the Great Depression.
A Nation in Torment
Author: Edward Robb Ellis
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A spirited narrative history of America's most desperate decade. (back cover.).
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A spirited narrative history of America's most desperate decade. (back cover.).
The Great Depression
Author: Michael A. Bernstein
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379854
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This 1988 book focusses on why the American economy failed to recover from the downturn of 1929-33.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521379854
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This 1988 book focusses on why the American economy failed to recover from the downturn of 1929-33.
The Great Depression
Author: Pierre Berton
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0307374866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation. The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ended with the Second World War. With formidable story-telling powers, Berton reconstructs its engrossing events vividly: the Regina Riot, the Great Birth Control Trial, the black blizzards of the dust bowl and the rise of Social Credit. The extraordinary cast of characters includes Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who praised Hitler and Mussolini but thought Winston Churchill "one of the most dangerous men I have ever known"; Maurice Duplessis, who padlocked the homes of private citizens for their political opinions; and Tim Buck, the Communist leader who narrowly escaped murder in Kingston Penitentiary. In this #1 best-selling book, Berton proves that Canada's political leaders failed to take the bold steps necessary to deal with the mass unemployment, drought and despair. A child of the era, he writes passionately of people starving in the midst of plenty.
Publisher: Anchor Canada
ISBN: 0307374866
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Over 1.5 million Canadians were on relief, one in five was a public dependant, and 70,000 young men travelled like hoboes. Ordinary citizens were rioting in the streets, but their demonstrations met with indifference, and dissidents were jailed. Canada emerged from the Great Depression a different nation. The most searing decade in Canada's history began with the stock market crash of 1929 and ended with the Second World War. With formidable story-telling powers, Berton reconstructs its engrossing events vividly: the Regina Riot, the Great Birth Control Trial, the black blizzards of the dust bowl and the rise of Social Credit. The extraordinary cast of characters includes Prime Minister Mackenzie King, who praised Hitler and Mussolini but thought Winston Churchill "one of the most dangerous men I have ever known"; Maurice Duplessis, who padlocked the homes of private citizens for their political opinions; and Tim Buck, the Communist leader who narrowly escaped murder in Kingston Penitentiary. In this #1 best-selling book, Berton proves that Canada's political leaders failed to take the bold steps necessary to deal with the mass unemployment, drought and despair. A child of the era, he writes passionately of people starving in the midst of plenty.
Money and Empire
Author: Perry Mehrling
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009178520
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. Unlike most of his colleagues, Kindleberger was deeply interested in history, and his economics brimmed with real people and institutional details. His research at the New York Fed and BIS during the Great Depression, his wartime intelligence work, and his role in administering the Marshall Plan gave him deep insight into how the international financial system really operated. A biography of both the dollar and a man, this book is also the story of the development of ideas about how money works. It throws revealing light on the underlying economic forces and political obstacles shaping our globalized world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009178520
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Charles Kindleberger ranks as one of the twentieth century's best known and most influential international economists. This book traces the evolution of his thinking in the context of a 'key-currency' approach to the rise of the dollar system, here revealed as the indispensable framework for global economic development since World War II. Unlike most of his colleagues, Kindleberger was deeply interested in history, and his economics brimmed with real people and institutional details. His research at the New York Fed and BIS during the Great Depression, his wartime intelligence work, and his role in administering the Marshall Plan gave him deep insight into how the international financial system really operated. A biography of both the dollar and a man, this book is also the story of the development of ideas about how money works. It throws revealing light on the underlying economic forces and political obstacles shaping our globalized world.
A Financial History of Western Europe
Author: Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136805788
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136805788
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the book covers money, banking and finance from 1450 to 1913; the second deals in considerably finer detail with the twentieth century. This major work casts current issues in historical perspective and throws light on the fascinating, and far from orderly, evolution of financial institutions and the management of financial problems. Comprehensive, critical and cosmopolitan, this book is both an outstanding work of reference and essential reading for all those involved in the study and practice of finance, be they economic historians, financial experts, scholarly bankers or students of money and banking. This groundbreaking work was first published in 1984.
Personal Legacies
Author: Robin A. Edgar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972377089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780972377089
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description