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The Midas paradox : financial markets, government policy shocks, and the Great Depression
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- Creator
- Scott Sumner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oakland, California : Independent Institute, [2015]
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 509 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781598131505, 1598131508, 9781598131512, 1598131516
- OCLC
- ocn865543783
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- From the Wall Street crash to the first banking panic -- The German crisis of 1931 -- The "liquidity trap" of 1932 -- A foolproof plan for reflation -- The NIRA and the hidden depression -- The rubber dollar -- The demise of the gold bloc -- The gold panic -- The midas curse and the Roosevelt depression -- The influence of the depression on macroeconomic thought -- Concluding remarks -- Theoretical issues in modeling the Great Depression