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The world in depression, 1929-1939
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In this paper, the authors present an explanation of the 1929 Depression Bibliography Index and present a table-based approach to the analysis of the stock market crash and the subsequent depression.Abstract:
List of Text Figures List of Tables Foreword Preface 1. Introduction 2. Recovery from the First World War 3. The Boom 4. The Agricultural Depression 5. The 1929 Stock-Market Crash 6. The Slide to the Abyss 7. 1931 8. More Deflation 9. The World Economic Conference 10. The Beginnings of Recovery 11. The Gold Bloc Yields 12. The 1937 Recession 13. Rearmament in a Disintegrating World Economy 14. An Explanation of the 1929 Depression Bibliography Indexread more
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