The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump - by T Balderston (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

The functioning of the gold standard has recently been at the heart of explanations of the interwar depression, particularly as a result of the research of Professors Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin. In The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump the interaction between the gold standard and the Great Depression in seven countries is examined by an international team of economists and economic historians. The editor's introduction critically evaluates the Eichengreen-Temin thesis and Eichengreen and Temin themselves contribute an Afterword.

About the Author

G. BALACHANDRAN Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland BARRY EICHENGREEN George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economic and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA PAUL GREGORY Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Houston, USA MICHAEL KITSON Lecturer, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UK ALBRECHT RITSCHL Professor of Economic History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany PIERRE SIKLOS Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada JOEL SAILORS Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Houston, USA JOHN SINGLETON Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand PETER TEMIN Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technoogy (MIT), USA PIERRE VILLA Associate Professor of Economics, Paris IX Dauphine University, France