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A large body of research has linked the gold standard to the severity of the Great Depression . This column argues that while economic historians have focused on the role of tightened US monetary policy, not enough attention has been …

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Did France cause the Great Depression? « Mostly Economics

Within a few years, of course, the Great Depression was over. But it’s both instructive and discouraging to look at the state of America circa 1938 — instructive because the nature of the recovery that followed refutes the arguments …

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Comparing 1938 Depression with 2010 « Mostly Economics