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Economic historians have made great progress in unraveling the causes of the Great Depression, but not until Scott Sumner came along has anyone explained the multitude of twists and turns the economy took. In The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression, Sumner offers his magnum opus the first book to comprehensively explain both monetary and non-monetary causes of that cataclysm. Drawing on financial market data and contemporaneous news stories, Sumner shows that the Great Depression is ultimately a story of incredibly bad policymaking by central…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2015Independent Institute, The · 9781598131529
- Other · English · 2015Independent Institute, The · 9781598131536
- Other · English · 2015Independent Institute, The · 528 pages · 9781598131505
- Other · English · 2015Independent Institute, The · 9781598131543
- Other · English · 2014Independent Institute, The · 9781598131512
Depressions, 1929Monetary policy, united statesUnited states, economic policyDepressionsMonetary policyHistoryEconomic policy