
The World Economy between the Wars
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Interwar Economy in a Secular Perspective
- 1.1 Modern Economic Growth in a Twentieth-Century Perspective
- 1.2 Some Quantitative Features of the Interwar Years
- 1.3 Two Propositions about International Economic Organization
- Chapter 2 The Legacy of the First World War
- 2.1 The Economics of "Total War"
- 2.2 The Economic Consequences of the War
- 2.3 The Economic Consequences of the Postwar Settlements
- Chapter 3 The 1920s: Crises and Currency Stabilizations
- 3.1 Accelerating Prices and Hyperinflation
- 3.2 Stability and Crisis in the European Banking Systems
- 3.3 Stabilization and the Return to Gold
- 3.4 The "Rules of the Game"
- Chapter 4 Output, Productivity, and Technical Progress in the 1920s
- 4.1 The Structure of European Economies
- 4.2 Industrialization outside Europe
- 4.3 Britain and Germany in the 1920s
- 4.4 Agriculture in the 1920s
- 4.5 Aggregate Productivity Growth
- 4.6 Technical Progress and Organization in the Industrial Sector
- Chapter 5 International Capital Movements in the 1920s
- 5.1 An Overview of Foreign Investment
- 5.2 European Lending and Borrowing
- 5.3 Reparations and Capital Flows to Germany
- 5.4 Capital Flows to Central and Eastern Europe and to Overseas Primary Producers
- Chapter 6 The Onset of the Great Depression
- 6.1 The Course of the Crisis
- 6.2 The U.S. Banking Crisis of 1930
- 6.3 The Currency Crises in Austria and Germany
- 6.4 Disintegration of the Gold Standard
- 6.5 Currencies and Banks in Other Countries during the Depression
- 6.6 The End of the Contraction
- Chapter 7 Unemployment
- 7.1 The Changing Meaning of Unemployment
- 7.2 Measures and Kinds of Unemployment in the 1930s
- 7.3 The Personal Experience of Unemployment
- 7.4 The Social and Demographic Pattern of Unemployment
- 7.5 The Cross-Country Pattern of Unemployment
- 7.6 Unemployment, Benefits, and Real Wages
- 7.7 Work-Relief Policies
- Chapter 8 The Fragmented World of the 1930s
- 8.1 Attempts at International Cooperation
- 8.2 The Sterling Area
- 8.3 The Gold Bloc
- 8.4 The Nazi Trading Area
- 8.5 The United States and Russia as Polar Opposites
- Chapter 9 Industrial Progress and Recovery
- 9.1 Capital Outflows from Europe
- 9.2 An Overview of a Limp Recovery
- 9.3 Technical Progress in Agriculture and Industry in the 1930s
- 9.4 The Tripartite Agreement
- Chapter 10 Epilogue: The Past and the Present
- 10.1 The Aftermaths of Two World Wars: Similarities and Differences
- 10.2 A Lasting Legacy
- 10.3 Three Postwar Periods and Three Growth Episodes in the United States
- 10.4 The Post-Cold War Settlement in Perspective
- 10.5 The Globalization Backlash and the "Second Globalization"
- Guide to Further Reading
- References
- Index
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