Lessons from the Great Depression (The Lionel Robbins lectures) - Softcover

Temin, Peter; Shear, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262700441 ISBN 13: 9780262700443

Publisher: MIT Press, 1991

Synopsis

Lessons from the Great Depression provides an integrated view of the depression, covering the experience in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Do events of the 1930s carry a message for the 1990s? Lessons from the Great Depression provides an integrated view of the depression, covering the experience in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. It describes the causes of the depression, why it was so widespread and prolonged, and what brought about eventual recovery. Peter Temin also finds parallels in recent history, in the relentless deflationary course followed by the U.S. Federal Reserve Board and the British government in the early 1980s, and in the dogged adherence by the Reagan administration to policies generated by a discredited economic theory-supply-side economics.

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Review:

" Peter Temin's lucid discussion rescues the history of the great world economic crisis from the fatalistic conservatism that has become so fashionable in recent years. The analysis is instructive both for those with little formal training in economics and for those with a sophisticated grasp of theory." -- Charles Maier, Harvard University

& quot; Peter Temin's lucid discussion rescues the history of the great world economic crisis from the fatalistic conservatism that has become so fashionable in recent years. The analysis is instructive both for those with little formal training in economics and for those with a sophisticated grasp of theory.& quot; -- Charles Maier, Harvard University

"Peter Temin's lucid discussion rescues the history of the great world economic crisis from the fatalistic conservatism that has become so fashionable in recent years. The analysis is instructive both for those with little formal training in economics and for those with a sophisticated grasp of theory."--Charles Maier, Harvard University

Synopsis:

This is an integrated view of the depression, covering the experience in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. It describes the causes of the depression, why it was so widespread and prolonged, and what brought about eventual recovery. Temin finds parallels in recent history, in the the relentless deflationary course followed by the US Federal Reserve Board and the British government in the early 1980s, and in the adherence by the Reagan administration to policies generated by a discredited economic theory - supply-side economics.

About this edition

• Publisher: MIT Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0262700441
• ISBN 13: 9780262700443
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210