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Bernanke, Ben.

Essays on the great depression / Ben S. Bernanke.

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

ix, 310 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

These essays explore the Great Depression from the point of view of a scholar whose specialty is macroeconomics. His key assertion is that the Depression is informative about the current economy because it was enormous and it affected most of the world's countries.

Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.

Depressions -- 1929.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Overview. Macroeconomics of the Great Depression : a comparative approach -- Money and financial markets. Nonmonetary effects of the financial crisis in the propagation of the Great Depression ; Gold standard, deflation, and financial crisis in the Great Depression : an international comparison / with Harold James ; Deflation and monetary contraction in the Great Depression : an analysis by simple ratios / with Ilian Mihov -- Labor markets. Cyclical behavior of industrial labor markets : a comparison of the prewar and postwar eras / with James L. Powell ; Employment, hours, and earnings in the depression : an analysis of eight manufacturing industries ; Unemployment, inflation, and wages in the American depression : are there lessons for Europe? / with Martin Parkinson ; Procyclical labor productivity and competing theories of the business cycle : some evidence from interwar U.S. manufacturing industries / with Martin Parkinson ; Nomimal wage stickiness and aggregate supply in the Great Depression / with Kevin Carey.

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