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The World in Depression, 1929-1939
"The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far."--John Kenneth Galbraith
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
June 1st 1986
by University of California Press
(first published April 17th 1986)
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Obviously this is a great classic anyone interested in world history, international economics, and in thinking along in the current economic crisis must get on to. It is at times a bit technical. People who have not lived with the gold standard, i.e. a global system of fixed exchange rates, like me find some passages a bit tough: the world HAS changed a lot since 1930. In the 1930s it took 5 days to ship gold from London to New York, something done frequently at a time where Central Banks were t...more
Feb 27, 2011
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(I have not in fact finished this book, but do not expect to return to it anytime soon.)
The book is not as long (300 pgs) or as difficult (though it is dense enough) as I had remembered -- which, I suppose, says that I have learned a lot in the interval --. It is an outstanding book: lucid, intelligent, honest to a fault... and has none of the turgid academese usually found in books like this.
Kindleberger's discussion covers the whole of the Great Depression -- starting with the recovery after W...more
The book is not as long (300 pgs) or as difficult (though it is dense enough) as I had remembered -- which, I suppose, says that I have learned a lot in the interval --. It is an outstanding book: lucid, intelligent, honest to a fault... and has none of the turgid academese usually found in books like this.
Kindleberger's discussion covers the whole of the Great Depression -- starting with the recovery after W...more
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Jul 12, 2008
nanto
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Sebuah kalimat yang menegaskan perlunya dunia akan hegemon, one hegemon, dikutip oleh para Sarjana HI yang mengemukakan Hegemonic Stability Theory dari buku ini.
Namun, Kindleberger sendiri dalam sebuah artikel yang dimuat di sebuah jurnal (nanti saya cari ke CSIS kalo sempat), mengkritik Keohane salah satunya yang dianggapnya menyalahartikan maksud yang ingin disampaikan dalam kalimat yang banyak dikutip itu.
Artikel itu sungguh menarik alurnya. Dalam sebuah artikel ilmiah, Kindleberger menggunak...more
Namun, Kindleberger sendiri dalam sebuah artikel yang dimuat di sebuah jurnal (nanti saya cari ke CSIS kalo sempat), mengkritik Keohane salah satunya yang dianggapnya menyalahartikan maksud yang ingin disampaikan dalam kalimat yang banyak dikutip itu.
Artikel itu sungguh menarik alurnya. Dalam sebuah artikel ilmiah, Kindleberger menggunak...more
Gotta be the best book for understanding what *that* was all about. Clearly written, precise, not laden with academic bafflegab.
Take-away lesson: "Great depressions recur. Often no one in authority has any idea of what to do."
Gee, ya think?
Take-away lesson: "Great depressions recur. Often no one in authority has any idea of what to do."
Gee, ya think?
Clear, though at times dense, account of the international origins of the Great Depression, i.e. the lack of an international lender of last resort.
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