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Morris, Charles R.
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Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Depressions -- 1929.
Stock Market Crash, 1929.
World politics -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Europe.
Economic history -- 1918-1945.
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Morris, Charles R.
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Depressions -- 1929.
Stock Market Crash, 1929.
World politics -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Europe.
Economic history -- 1918-1945.
MARC Display
A
rabble
of
dead
money
: the
Great
Crash
and the
global
depression
:
1929-1939
/ Charles R. Morris.
by
Morris, Charles R.
PublicAffairs, c2017.
Call #:
330.904 M875r
Subjects
Depressions -- 1929 -- United States.
Depressions -- 1929.
Stock Market
Crash
, 1929.
World politics -- 20th century.
Depressions -- 1929 -- Europe.
Economic history -- 1918-1945.
ISBN:
9781610395342 (hc)
1610395344 (hc)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xvi, 389 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364) and index.
Contents:
Part one. America discovers the modern -- The jazz age -- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and Insull -- And then came Ford -- Transformations: New York City -- the view from below: Muncie, Indiana -- Dislocations -- Part two. "One heckuva boom" -- Trickle-down economics -- From war to prosperity -- Electrifying Chicago -- David Buick, Billy Durant, Alfred Sloan, and the modern car industry -- What happened to Ford? -- A productivity bonanza -- Spinoffs -- Laggards: agriculture -- Laggards: real estate -- On the eve of the
crash
-- Part three. The
crash
in the United States -- New York Stock Exchange -- The rise of Herbert Hoover -- Charting the fall -- The worm's eye view -- The banking crisis of the
Great
Depression
-- The twilight of the gods I: Insull -- The twilight of the gods II: Kreuger -- Part four. Blood, gold, and unpaid debts -- Entanglements -- The gold standard -- Germany, 1919-1925: vengeance, reparations, and war debts -- The Dawes and Young plans -- England, 1919-1925: Churchill (sort of) chooses resumption -- The French rollercoaster -- The end of cooperation -- Germany unravels -- The golden jihad -- Getting what you wish for -- Part five. Roosevelt, reflation, and recovery -- World monetary & economic conference -- Devaluing the dollar -- Creating the "New Deal" -- The New Deal in overview -- The New Deal in detail -- The rest of the New Deal: a roundup -- Econometric analyses -- Catastrophe -- The unemployment conundrum -- The
great
lap forward -- Part six. The geology of the collapses -- The legacy of war -- The big picture -- The details -- A postscript to the reader.
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