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THE DEFINING MOMENT
GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE AMERICAN ECONOMY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY |
| By: |
Michael Bordo, etc. |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£61.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226065898 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226065892 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
27 March, 1998 |
| Edition: |
1996th ed. |
| Series: |
National Bureau of Economic Research Project Reports |
| Pages: |
492 |
| Description: |
The origins of the economic and social policies that characterize American government of the later 20th century are often connected with the Great Depression. This text evaluates the extent to which the Depression was a watershed and explores how it still effects government policy. |
| Synopsis: |
The Great Depression is the " defining moment" to which most historians, economists, and political scientists connect the origins of the economic and social policies that have characterized American government in the second half of the twentieth century. In the most comprehensive collection of essays available on these topics, The Defining Moment evaluates the extent to which the Great Depression was a watershed period in the history of the American economy. This volume concludes that a large role of today's government and its methods of intervention derive from the crisis years of the 1930s. Sixty years later, the basic imprint of the defining moment is still visible. |
| Illustrations: |
54 line drawings, 50 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |