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The authors foresee that the 1990s will be even more difficult than the 1987 crash with the bankruptcy of the welfare state; the breakup of many large institutions, including a number of nation-states; deeper declines of real estate prices; debt implosion; and the insolvency of many consumers and corporations.
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Between 1933 and 1935, Lorena Hickok traveled across thirty-two states as a "confidential investigator" for Harry Hopkins, head of FDR's Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Her assignment was to gather information about the day-to-day toll the Depression was exacting on individual citizens. "One Third of a Nation" is her record, underscored by the eloquent photographs of Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and others, of the shocking plight of millions...
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The Great Depression was a pivotal period in our nation's history. This annotated bibliography guides readers to biographies, oral histories, memoirs, recollections, photograph collections, fiction and nonfiction books, picture books, international resources and other reference sources. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) state guides are included, as well as literature about the federal theatre, arts, and music projects. A comprehensive listing...
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"It is an accepted truism that the Great Depression did more for the development of modern economics than any other single event. Some of the greatest economists of the twentieth century were inspired to go into the field as a direct result of their experiences during this period."
"This book is about the most prominent economic explanations of the Great Depression and how it affected the lives, experiences, and subsequent thinking of economists...
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By examining the uneven fate of manufacturing industries during the 1930s, Michael Bernstein presents a powerful new interpretation of the Great Depression. The depth and persistence of the slump, he argues, cannot be explained by cyclical theories alone, but by the conjunction of a crisis in financial markets with a long-run transformation in the kinds of goods and services required by firms and households. By focusing on evidence from specific industries,...
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Economic and business uncertainty dominate today's economic analyses. This new Encyclopedia illuminates the subject by offering 327 original articles on every major aspect of business cycles, fluctuations, financial crises, recessions, and depressions. The articles cover a broad range of subjects, including capsule biographies of leading economists born before 1920. The Encyclopedia introduces readers to the principal ideas, concepts, facts, and events...
15) A stranger here
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One of folk music's most enduring icons performs a collection of Depression-era blues songs that still resonate during today's turbulent times.
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"Written with the non-economist in mind, the book focuses on four central questions: What were the origins of the depression? Why was it so severe? How far, and in what ways, did the European economy recover? And what were the implications of that recovery for political relations in, and between, nations?"
"The book examines recent research into the causes of the depression, notably the role of the gold standard 'system'. It gives equal weight to...
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Includes information on banks, Civilian Conservation Corps, communism, farming, flophouses, Hoovervilles, housing conditions, hunger immigrant experience, jungles, labor unions, Negroes, police, Public Works Administration, relief, scabs, sharecroppers, tenant farmers, sitdown strikes, Tennessee Valley Administration, unemployment, women workers, Works Progress Administration, etc.
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