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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      August 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511571985
      9780521562614
      9780521663465
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511571985
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.455kg, 196 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.26kg, 192 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, History, Economic History
      Series:
      Studies in Macroeconomic History
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    Subjects:
    Economics, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, History, Economic History
    Series:
    Studies in Macroeconomic History
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    Book description

    This is the first full-length study of five US banking panics of the Great Depression. Previous studies of the Depression have approached the banking panics from a macroeconomic viewpoint; Professor Wicker fills a lacuna in current knowledge by reconstructing a close historical narrative of each of the panics, investigating their origins, magnitude, and effects. He makes a detailed analysis of the geographical incidence of the disturbances using the Federal Reserve District as the basic unit, and reappraises the role of Federal Reserve officials in the panics. His findings challenge many of the commonly held assumptions about the events of 1930 and 1931, for example the belief that the increase in the discount rate in October 1931 initiated a wave of bank suspensions and hoarding. This meticulous account will be of wide interest to students of the Great Depression, monetary and financial historians, financial economists and macroeconomists.

    Reviews

    ‘An important contribution to our understanding of the interactions between the banking system and the course of the Great Depression.’

    John H. Wood Source: H-Net Reviews

    ‘This book substantially advances the literature on banks and money during the Great Depression.’

    David C. Wheelock Source: Journal of Economic History

    ‘ … he assembles a commendable representation of the major incidents that will be a springboard for a great deal of future research … a valuable addition to scholarly work on the causes and consequences of Depression-era bank failures and panics’.

    Source: Economica

    ‘Wicker’s meticulous, in many respects exemplary, account is essential reading for the financial history of the Great Depression.’

    Source: The History Journal

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