All Posts Tagged With: "Great Contraction"
Final Comment on Salerno’s Monetary Program
I am not going to re-argue the points of difference between Salerno’s arguments and mine in this final rejoinder. The reader must decide for himself which parts if any of our respective views are most logical and most useful in dealing with the events under scrutiny. I find that nothing in Salerno’s final account refutes [...]
1Sep2000 | Richard H. Timberlake | 1 comment | ContinuedGold Policy in the 1930s
Richard Timberlake is a professor of economics retired from the University of Georgia and author of Monetary Policy in the United States: An Intellectual and Institutional History (University of Chicago Press, 1993). This is the second in a series. Between 1929 and 1933, the Federal Reserve System, which is the central bank of the United [...]
1May1999 | Richard H. Timberlake | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Mysteries of the Great Depression Finally Solved
The Great Depression of the 1930s may be a dim memory now, but its impact is still being felt in policy and theory. The prolonged depression created an environment critical of laissez-faire policies and favorable toward ubiquitous state interventionism throughout the Western world.
1Jul1997 | Mark Skousen | 27 comments | Continued-
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