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The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...
Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). scholarly history online; Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. (2009) online; popular history. Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929–1941 (1948), scholarly social history online; Wicker, Elmus. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression (1996) White, Eugene N.
Essays on the Great Depression (2000) Bernstein, Michael A. The Great Depression: Delayed Recovery and Economic Change in America, 1929–1939 (1989) focus on low-growth and high-growth industries; Bordo, Michael D., Claudia Goldin, and Eugene N. White, eds. The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth ...
And while there are plenty of modern-day ways to prepare for any lean times that might come, a surprising number of lessons from the hardships of the 1930s endure. Here are a dozen to guide us ...
Economic collapse, also called economic meltdown, is any of a broad range of poor economic conditions, ranging from a severe, prolonged depression with high bankruptcy rates and high unemployment (such as the Great Depression of the 1930s), to a breakdown in normal commerce caused by hyperinflation (such as in Weimar Germany in the 1920s), or even an economically caused sharp rise in the death ...
The coming of the Great Depression ushered in radically different ideas of social engineering, [7] culminating in reforms introduced by the New Deal. [6] [7] By late 1932, various groups across the United States were calling themselves technocrats and proposing reforms. [8] By the mid-1930s, interest in the technocracy movement was
#13 Young Girl During The Great Depression, 1930s. Image credits: Old-time Photos #14 Men In Harlem Gather In Front Of A Shop To Listen To The Radio, 1940. Image credits: Old-time Photos
A Depression-era federal program let artists depict the underside of American capitalism. Republicans killed it. Column: Remembering when the government wasn't afraid to let artists tell the truth ...