Revised and Enlarged EditionIn this revision of the widely circulated and widely quoted 1973 edition, Professor Kindleberger incorporates new material on European banking practices during the 1930s as well as the economic difficulties experienced by Latin America during the same period. This new research strengthens the author's original conclusion that the depression was international in origin rather than domestic. |
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The World in Depression, 1929-1939: Revised and Enlarged Edition Charles P. Kindleberger Limited preview - 1986 |
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abroad agreement agricultural American April August Bank of England Bank of France boom borrowing Britain British Brüning Business Cycles capital Central Bank Cooperation commodity prices countries Creditanstalt crisis currency Dawes Dawes Plan debts December decline deflation deflationary depression devaluation discount dollar domestic economists Europe exchange depreciation exchange rates exports Federal Reserve Bank Federal Reserve System foreign exchange foreign lending French Friedman and Schwartz funds Germany gold bloc gold prices gold standard Hoover Ibid imports income increase industrial inflation interest rates investment issue January July June Keynes League of Nations loan London March ment million Moggridge Moley monetary policy money supply Morgenthau Norman October open market open market operations payments percent pound President pressure production raised recovery Reichsbank reparations rise Roosevelt Sauvy Schacht September Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act stabilization sterling stock market crash tariffs tion trade Treasury unemployment United wheat World Economic Conference Young Plan