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.
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| Preface |
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| Notes on the Contributors |
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Introduction: The `Deflationary Bias' of the Interwar Gold Standard |
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Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada |
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27 | (31) |
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France in the Depression of the Early 1930s |
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58 | (30) |
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Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience |
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88 | (17) |
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'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany, 1924--33 |
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105 | (38) |
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The Interwar Slump in India |
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143 | (29) |
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New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis |
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172 | (19) |
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The Soviet Union during the Great Depression: The Autarky Model |
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191 | (20) |
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Afterword: Counterfactual Histories of the Great Depression |
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211 | (12) |
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Theo Balderston is in the Department of History, University of Manchester.
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