The Great Depression

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Focusses on why the American economy failed to recover from the downturn of 1929-1933.

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List of tables; List of figures; Editors' preface; Preface; Introduction: the puzzle of the 1930s; 1. Long-term economic growth and the problem of recovery in the United States, 1929 39; 2. The transformation of American industry in the interwar period; 3. A reassessment of investment failure in the interwar economy; 4. Technical change during the interwar years; 5. The effective demand problem of the interwar period I: cyclical and structural unemployment; 6. The effective demand problem of the interwar period II: cyclical and secular changes in final demand; 7. New deal economic policy and the problem of recovery; 8. Contemporary economic problems in historical perspective; Bibliography; Index.