The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

by Balderston, Theo

• ISBN13: 9780333738641
• ISBN10: 0333738640
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-22
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Author Biography

Theo Balderston is in the Department of History, University of Manchester.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vi
List of Tables	viii
Preface	ix
Notes on the Contributors	x
List of Abbreviations	xii
Introduction: The `Deflationary Bias' of the Interwar Gold Standard	1	(26)
Theo Balderston
Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada	27	(31)
Pierre L. Siklos
France in the Depression of the Early 1930s	58	(30)
Pierre Villa
Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience	88	(17)
Michael Kitson
'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany, 1924--33	105	(38)
Albrecht Ritschl
The Interwar Slump in India	143	(29)
G. Balachandran
New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis	172	(19)
John Singleton
The Soviet Union during the Great Depression: The Autarky Model	191	(20)
Paul R. Gregory
Joel Sailors
Afterword: Counterfactual Histories of the Great Depression	211	(12)
Barry Eichengreen
Peter Temin
Index	223