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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles R Morris |
| ISBN: | 9781610395342 1610395344 |
| OCLC Number: | 973880245 |
| Description: | xvi, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents: | Part One, America discovers the modern: The jazz age -- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and Insull -- And then came Ford -- Transformations: New York City -- The view from below: Muncie, Indiana -- Dislocations. Part Two, "One heckuva boom": Trickle-down economics -- From war to prosperity -- Electrifying Chicago -- David Buick, Billy Durant, Alfred Sloan, and the modern car industry -- What happened to Ford? -- A productivity bonanza -- Spinoffs -- Laggards: agriculture -- Laggards: real estate -- On the eve of the crash. Part Three, The Crash in the United States: New York Stock Exchange -- The rise of Herbert Hoover -- Charting the fall -- The worm's eye view -- The banking crises of the Great Depression -- The twilight of the gods I. Insull -- The twilight of the gods II. Kreuger. Part Four, Blood, gold, and unpaid debts: Entanglements -- The gold standard -- Germany, 1919-1925 : vengeance, reparations, and war debts -- The Dawes and Young plans -- England, 1919-1925 : Churchill (sort of) chooses resumption -- The French rollercoaster -- The end of cooperation -- Germany unravels -- The golden jihad -- Getting what you wish for. Part Five, Roosevelt, reflation, and recovery: World Monetary & Economic Conference -- Devaluing the dollar -- Creating the "New Deal" -- The New Deal in overview -- The New Deal in detail -- The rest of the New Deal: a roundup -- Econometric analyses -- Catastrophe -- The unemployment conundrum -- The great leap forward. Part 6., The geology of the collapse: The legacy of war -- The big picture -- The details -- A postscript to the reader. |
| Other Titles: | Great Crash and the global depression, 1929-1939 |
| Responsibility: | Charles R. Morris. |
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"A great and informative read about a singularly important era in world history."--Wall Street Journal "A Rabble of Dead Money is a deft synthesis, blending colorful accounts of the past with the scholarly literature of the present. It may not be the last word on the Great Depression, but it is hard to imagine a more accessible and entertaining introduction to the subject."--New York Times Book Review "A Rabble of Dead Money is a lucid guide through the political and ideological thickets of the Great Depression, beautifully written and full of original insights."--Charles H. Ferguson, director, Academy Award winner for Inside Job "As entertaining as it is scholarly, this fresh look at the causes and consequences of the Great Depression by one of the world's leading economic historians imparts timely lessons in the age of the Great Recession. It is a book I will reread for years, I'm sure."--Michael Lind, author of Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States "Morris has masterfully combined the work of historians along with the results of the latest research in economics and economic history. His narrative offers original perspectives on many important issues."--Alexander J. Field, author of A Great Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and US Economic Growth "Charles Morris wrote a superb book on the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-8 and now, armed with those insights, he returns and takes us back in time to illuminate the causes of the Great Depression. Looking at the present armed with the lessons of the past, and looking at the distant past armed with the insights of recent history, Morris makes a timeless contribution to our understanding of how, in each crisis, the fallibility of leaders is revealed when uncertainty overwhelms the yearning for order, and how the blind spots revealed are the heart of the tragic flaws of each tale."--Robert Johnson, President, Institute for New Economic Thinking "Sprightly...Morris is at his best when writing about economic matters, alerting readers to the latest, most authoritative thinking about the causes and realities of the Great Depression."--Publishers Weekly "Both neophytes and experts will find something provocative and rewarding in this unfailingly interesting treatment."--Kirkus Reviews Read more...
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- Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Europe.
- Depressions -- 1929.
- Stock Market Crash, 1929.
- World politics -- 1900-1945.
- United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
- Economic history -- 1918-1945.
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
- Depressions.
- Economic history.
- World politics.
- Europe.
- United States.
- Weltwirtschaftskrise
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