1st Edition

The Great Depression

By Lionel Robbins Copyright 2009
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the nature and the causes of the 1929 depression, tracing its background and the broad conditions from which the depression emerged. As an infl uence on economic activity, Robbins sees World War I, and the political changes that followed it, as a series of shifts in the fundamental conditions of demand and supply, to which economic activity had to adapt. Th e needs of the war... Read more
I: 1914-1933; II: Misconceptions; III: The Genesis of the Depression; IV: The Causes of Deflation; V: Great Britain and the Financial Crisis; VI: International Chaos; VII: Restrictionism and Planning; VIII: Conditions of Recovery; IX: Prospects

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