Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Editors' preface
- Preface
- Introduction: The puzzle of the 1930s
- 1 Long-term economic growth and the problem of recovery in the United States, 1929–39
- 2 The transformation of American industry in the interwar period
- 3 A reassessment of investment failure in the interwar economy
- 4 Technical change during the interwar years
- 5 The effective demand problem of the interwar period. I: Cyclical and structural unemployment
- 6 The effective demand problem of the interwar period. II: Cyclical and secular changes in final demand
- 7 New Deal economic policy and the problem of recovery
- 8 Contemporary economic problems in historical perspective
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Editors' preface
- Preface
- Introduction: The puzzle of the 1930s
- 1 Long-term economic growth and the problem of recovery in the United States, 1929–39
- 2 The transformation of American industry in the interwar period
- 3 A reassessment of investment failure in the interwar economy
- 4 Technical change during the interwar years
- 5 The effective demand problem of the interwar period. I: Cyclical and structural unemployment
- 6 The effective demand problem of the interwar period. II: Cyclical and secular changes in final demand
- 7 New Deal economic policy and the problem of recovery
- 8 Contemporary economic problems in historical perspective
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Great DepressionDelayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987