The Defining Moment: The Great Depression and the American Economy in the Twentieth Century

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Time Line The Defining Moment Hypothesis: The Editors' Introduction Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, Eugene N. White. I: The Birth of Activist Macroeconomic Policy 1: Was the Great Depression a Watershed for American Monetary Policy? Charles W. Calomiris, David C. Wheelock. 2: Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression J. Bradford De Long 3: The Legacy of Deposit Insurance: The Growth, Spread, and Cost of Insuring Financial Intermediaries Eugene N. White II: Expanding Government 4: By Way of Analogy: The Expansion of the Federal Government in the 1930s Hugh Rockoff 5: The Impact of the New Deal on American Federalism John Joseph Wallis, Wallace E. Oates. 6: The Great Depression and the Regulating State: Federal Government Regulation of Agriculture, 1884-1970 Gary D. Libecap III: Insuring Households and Workers 7: A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation Katherine Baicker, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz. 8: Spurts in Union Growth: Defining Moments and Social Processes Richard B. Freeman 9: The Genesis and Evolution of Social Security Jeffrey A. Miron, David N. Weil. IV: International Perspectives 10: From Smoot-Hawley to Reciprocal Trade Agreements: Changing the Course of U.S. Trade Policy in the 1930s Douglas A. Irwin 11: The Great Depression as a Watershed: International Capital Mobility over the Long Run Maurice Obstfeld, Alan M. Taylor. 12: Implications of the Great Depression for the Development of the International Monetary System Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen. Contributors Name Index Subject Index