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This book offers a reassessment of the international monetary problems that led to the global economic crisis of the 1930s. The author shows how policies, in co

Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly atte

This comprehensive history, published jointly by the IMF and Oxford University Press, was written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of international monetary coo

“The World in Depression is the best book on the subject, and the subject, in turn, is the economically decisive decade of the century so far.”—John Kenne

However, this inheritance of economic and social institutions that was the solution until around 1973--when Europe had to switch from growth based on brute-forc