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financial markets, government policy shocks, and the Great Depression
Introduction -- From the Wall Street crash to the first banking panic -- The German crisis of 1931 -- The "liquidity trap" of 1932 -- A foolproof plan for reflation -- The NIRA and the hidden depression -- The rubber dollar -- The demise of the gold bloc -- The gold panic -- The midas curse and the Roosevelt depression -- The influence of the depression on macroeconomic thought -- Concluding remarks -- Theoretical issues in modeling the Great Depression.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Independent studies in political economy