UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Department of Economics Berkeley, California Working Paper 8882 THE GOLD-EXCHANGE STANDARD AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION Barry Eichengreen June 28, 1988 Key words: Gold standard, Great Depression. Abstract A number of explanations for the severity of the Grea...
Key Words in History 历史关键词 1.Hoovervilles 胡佛村 A Hooverville was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after the President of the United States at the time, Herbert Hoover, because he allegedly let the nation slide into...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Department of Economics Berkeley, California Working Paper 8882 THE GOLD-EXCHANGE STANDARD AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION Barry Eichengreen June 28, 1988 Key words: Gold standard, Great Depression. Abstract A number of explanations for the severity of the Great Depression ...
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. Great Depression - the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s 2. Great Depression - a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and ...
1701 Words 7 Pages Better Essays Read More The Great Depression “TheGreatDepression(1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world” (TheGreatDepression-History.com 2012). Thegreatdepressionis said to have begun after the First Wo...
This article analyzes and compares the performance of the industrial sector during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession that began in 2007 using the best available synthetic indicator, the Index of Industrial Production. The main objective is to update and extend the exercise ...
Key words: International trade; Tariffs; Great Depression; General equilibrium JEL classification: E3; FI; F4 * Corresponding author. We thank Michael Bordo, Steve Cecchetti, Amy Glass, and two referees for helpful comments. The paper has also benefited from interaction with participants at the ...
The Great Depression: Keynes's Perspective107reasons (the experience of the General Strike of 1926 was not to be repeated),theBritish economy was caught in a low employment trap. Monetary policy wasblocked by the gold standard and wages policy was blocked by the Trade Unions.It was at this ...
Depression. The argument has been made that the Fedcausedthe Depression by tightening money, and if only the Fed back then had increased the money supply””in other words, had done what the Fed has done today””a full-blown Depression would likely have been averted. In economics, it’s...
They have strong views on the Depression. Thruth, The first ad was “Suffering from depression? Try our . . . ” Google works off key words, I guess they think my readers suffer from depression. Thanks Gregor, Your comments are very perceptive. In my first reply I made similar points ...