Debt, Crisis and Recovery: The 1930's and the 1990's

Provides a perspective by a prominent economist on the problems of debt, recession, and recovery in the 1930s as compared with the 1990s.

Autorentext

Albert G. Hart, Perry G. Mehrling

Inhalt

I: Debt, Crisis, and Recovery Revisited; 1: Debts and Fluctuation; 2: The End of an Era: 1930s and 1990s; 3: A Framework for Reform; II: Debts and Recovery, 1929 to 1937; The Factual Findings; 1: The Debt Problem and the Depression; 2: Credit Institutions in the Depression; 3: The Crisis in Commercial Banking; 4: Other Credit Agencies in the Crisis; 5: The Debts of Individuals and Unincorporated Firms; 6: The Debts of Corporations; 7: Shifts in Government Debts; The Program; 8: Findings and Recommendations of the Committee on Debt Adjustment