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A rabble of dead money, the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939, Charles R. Morris

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-364) and index

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A rabble of dead money

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Charles R. Morris

the Great Crash and the global depression: 1929-1939

1. America discovers the modern -- The jazz age -- Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, & Insull -- And then came Ford -- Transformations: New York City -- View from below: Muncie, Indiana -- Dislocations -- 2. "One heckuva boom" -- Trickle-down economics -- From war to prosperity -- Electrifying Chicago -- David Buick, Billy Durant, Alfred Sloan, & the modern car industry -- What happened to Ford -- Productivity bonanza -- Spinoffs -- Laggards: agriculture -- Laggards: real estate -- On the eve of the crash -- 3. The crash in the United States -- New York Stock Exchange -- Rise of Herbert Hoover -- Charting the fall -- Worm's eye view -- The banking crisis of the Great Depression -- Twilight of the gods I: Insull -- Twilight of the gods II: Kreuger -- 4. Blood, gold, and unpaid debts -- Entanglements -- Gold standard -- Germany, 1919-25: vengeance, reparations, & war debts -- The Dawes and Young plans -- England, 1919-25: Churchill (sort of) chooses resumption -- The French rollercoaster -- The end of cooperation -- Germany unravels -- The golden jihad -- Getting what you wish for -- 5. Roosevelt, reflation, and recovery -- World monetary & economic conference -- Devaluing the dollar -- Creating the "New Deal" -- The New Deal in overview -- The New Deal in detail -- The rest of the New Deal: a roundup -- Econometric analyses -- Catastrophe -- The unemployment conundrum -- Great lap forward -- 6. The geology of the collapses -- The legacy of war -- The big picture -- The details -- A postscript to the reader

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