ENGLISH

Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression

By Peter Temin

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton
Year
1976
ISBN
0393055612, 0393092097
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12182720 bytes)
Pages
\216
Topic
Economy
Time added
2020-03-14 03:38:50

Description

Contents (vii) Tables and Figures (ix) Preface (xi) I. Introduction (1) II. The Role of Assumptions and Econometrics in the Analysis of the Depression (13) The Money Hypothesis: Friedman and Schwartz (14) The Spending Hypothesis: Econometric Studies (31) Bank Failures in a Model of the Money Market (53) III. Precipitating Factors (62) The Spending Hypothesis: Housing and the Stock-Market Crash (62) The Money Hypothesis: The Banking Crisis of 1930 (83) IV. Why the Stock of Money Fell A Sketch of the Theory (96) Changes in Interest-Rate Differentials (103) The Fall in the Demand for Money (121) V. The Deepening Depression The Absence of Equilibrating Forces (138) International Interactions (145) Deflation (160) VI. Conclusions (169) Appendices on Data (179) 1. Data for Tables 8 and 9 (179) 2. Sources for Tables 19–21 (184) Bibliography (186) Index (195)

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