Reuben Hoar Library (Littleton)

A rabble of dead money, the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939, Charles R. Morris

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364) and index

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index present

non fiction

A rabble of dead money

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Charles R. Morris

the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939

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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