Reflections on the Great Depression

Download or read book Reflections on the Great Depression written by Randall E. Parker and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parker (economics, East Carolina U.) presents 11 interviews with prominent economists who lived through the Great Depression. In the interviews, the economists reflect both on economic thinking of the time and the ways in which the Great Depression has affected subsequent theories of economics. They also reflect on what they think were the causes of the Great Depression and what were the mechanisms that brought the world out of economic crisis. The interviewees are Moses Ambraovitz, Morris Adelman, Milton Friedman, Albert Hart, Charles Kindleberger, Wassily Leontief, Paul Samuelson, Anna Schwartz, James Tobin, Herbert Stein, and Victor Zarnowitz. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR