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Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses—and Misuses—of History

Applied Economics Journal

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Title Hall of Mirrors: The Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the Uses—and Misuses—of History
 
Creator Gerber, James; Department of Economics San Diego State University
 
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Description Economic analysis of the world crisis of the 1930s, known as the Great Depression in the United States, continues to expand more than 80 years after its onset. Similarly, the Great Recession (2007-2009 in the United States) shows every sign of joining it as a major focus of economic historians. Barry Eichengreen’s book, Hall of Mirrors, sets a new standard by combining the two into a set of chronological parallel histories focused on policies and policy makers and the ways they used and misused history. He explores the lead ups to the two crises, the passage of regulations and the omission of regulations that enabled the crises, and most centrally, the reasons why policy makers in 2008 were able to avoid another Great Depression but still allowed a deeper and longer recession than necessary. The histories are told with attention to the details of economic analysis and the contexts of domestic and world politics. Eichengreen’s work is qualitative but informed by quantitative analysis and his own extensive research on the Great Depression and financial crises of the late 19th and 20th centuries. 
 
Publisher The Center for Applied Economics Research (CAER)
 
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Date 2016-05-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Non-referee Book Review
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/AEJ/article/view/57292
 
Source Applied Economics Journal; Vol 22, No 2 (2015): DECEMBER; 135-140
0858-9291
 
Relation http://www.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/AEJ/article/view/57292/47505
 
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