The Great Depression Revisited. Essays on the Economics of the Thirties.

Abstract

I. General Surveys.- The Great Crash of October, 1929.- International Consequences of the Great Crisis.- The Influence of the Great Depression on Economic Theory.- II. Political Aspects of the Great Depression.- Government Action against the Great Depression.- Europe and the Great Crisis.- The Depression and World Policy.- Waiting for The World Revolution: Soviet Reactions to the Great Depression.- III. Specific Economic Factors in the Great Depression.- Agriculture in the Great Depression. World Market Developments and European Protectionism.- Agriculture in the Industrial Economies of the West during the Great Depression, with Special Reference to the United States.- Business in the Great Depression.- IV. Economic effects of the great depression outside the U.S.A. and Western Europe.- The United States and the Non-European Periphery during the Early Years of the Great Depression.- Then Came the Great Depression. Japan's Interwar Years.- The British Empire Economies in the Great Depression.- The Impact of the Great Depression on Eastern Europe.- V. Social And Sociological Aspects of the Great Depression.- Government, Labour and Trade Unions.- Trade Unions and the World Economic Crisis. The Case of Germany.- The Depression and the Intellectuals.- Biographical Notes on Contributors.