| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 222 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of Tables; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Interwar Economy in a Secular Perspective; 1.1 Modern Economic Growth in a Twentieth-Century Perspective; 1.2 Some Quantitative Features of the Interwar Years; 1.3 Two Propositions about International Economic Organization; Chapter 2 The Legacy of the First World War; 2.1 The Economics of "Total War"; 2.2 The Economic Consequences of the War; 2.3 The Economic Consequences of the Postwar Settlements; Chapter 3 The 1920s: Crises and Currency Stabilizations; 3.1 Accelerating Prices and Hyperinflation |
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3.2 Stability and Crisis in the European Banking Systems3.3 Stabilization and the Return to Gold; 3.4 The "Rules of the Game"; Chapter 4 Output, Productivity, and Technical Progress in the 1920s; 4.1 The Structure of European Economies; 4.2 Industrialization outside Europe; 4.3 Britain and Germany in the 1920s; 4.4 Agriculture in the 1920s; 4.5 Aggregate Productivity Growth; 4.6 Technical Progress and Organization in the Industrial Sector; Chapter 5 International Capital Movements in the 1920s; 5.1 An Overview of Foreign Investment; 5.2 European Lending and Borrowing |
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5.3 Reparations and Capital Flows to Germany5.4 Capital Flows to Central and Eastern Europe and to Overseas Primary Producers; Chapter 6 The Onset of the Great Depression; 6.1 The Course of the Crisis; 6.2 The U.S. Banking Crisis of 1930; 6.3 The Currency Crises in Austria and Germany; 6.4 Disintegration of the Gold Standard; 6.5 Currencies and Banks in Other Countries during the Depression; 6.6 The End of the Contraction; Chapter 7 Unemployment; 7.1 The Changing Meaning of Unemployment; 7.2 Measures and Kinds of Unemployment in the 1930s; 7.3 The Personal Experience of Unemployment |
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7.4 The Social and Demographic Pattern of Unemployment7.5 The Cross-Country Pattern of Unemployment; 7.6 Unemployment, Benefits, and Real Wages; 7.7 Work-Relief Policies; Chapter 8 The Fragmented World of the 1930s; 8.1 Attempts at International Cooperation; 8.2 The Sterling Area; 8.3 The Gold Bloc; 8.4 The Nazi Trading Area; 8.5 The United States and Russia as Polar Opposites; Chapter 9 Industrial Progress and Recovery; 9.1 Capital Outflows from Europe; 9.2 An Overview of a Limp Recovery; 9.3 Technical Progress in Agriculture and Industry in the 1930s; 9.4 The Tripartite Agreement |
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Chapter 10 Epilogue: The Past and the Present10.1 The Aftermaths of Two World Wars: Similarities and Differences; 10.2 A Lasting Legacy; 10.3 Three Postwar Periods and Three Growth Episodes in the United States; 10.4 The Post-Cold War Settlement in Perspective; 10.5 The Globalization Backlash and the "Second Globalization"; Guide to Further Reading; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z |
| Summary |
Expanded from a previous volume dealing with Europe, new material in this book focuses on the structure of the world economy in the 1920s, including a special focus on the United States, Japan, and Latin America. In addition, chapters that discuss the post-depression recovery now cover the New Deal |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-216) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic history -- 1918-1945.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
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Economic history.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Temin, Peter.
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Toniolo, Gianni, 1942-
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| ISBN |
9780198042013 |
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0198042019 |
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9781435630543 |
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1435630548 |
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9780199867929 |
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0199867925 |
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128116335X |
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9781281163356 |
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