The world economy and national economies in the interwar slump / edited by Theo Balderston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Balderston, Theo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depressions--1929.

Depressions.

Gold standard--History--20th century.

Gold standard.

Economic policy--History--20th century.

Economic policy.

International economic relations--History--20th century.

International economic relations.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Summary:

The functioning of the gold standard has recently been at the heart of explanations of the interwar depression, particularly as a result of the research of Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin. In "The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump" the interaction between the gold standard and the Great Depression in seven countries is examined by an international team of economists and economic historians.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The 'Deflationary Bias' of the Interwar Gold Standard / Theo Balderston 1

2 Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada / Pierre L. Siklos 27

3 France in the Depression of the Early 1930s / Pierre Villa 58

4 Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience / Michael Kitson 88

5 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany, 1924-33 / Albrecht Ritschl 105

6 The Interwar Slump in India / G. Balachandran 143

7 New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis / John Singleton 172

8 The Soviet Union during the Great Depression: The Autarky Model / Paul R. Gregory, Joel Sailors 191

9 Afterword: Counterfactual Histories of the Great Depression / Barry Eichengreen, Peter Temin 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0333738640

OCLC:

50164702