The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

The functioning of the gold standard has recently been at the heart of explanations of the interwar depression, particularly as a result of the research of Professors Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin. In The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump the interaction between the gold standard and the Great Depression in seven countries is examined by an international team of economists and economic historians. The editor's introduction critically evaluates the Eichengreen-Temin thesis and Eichengreen and Temin themselves contribute an Afterword.

List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression; T.Balderston Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada; P.Siklos France in the Depression of the Early 1930s; P.Villa Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience; M.Kitson 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany 1924-33; A.Ritschl The Slump in Interwar India; G.Balachandran New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation Without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis; J.Singleton The Soviet Union During the Great Depression: The Autarky Model; P.Gregory & J.Sailors Afterword; B.Eichengreen & P.Temin

G. BALACHANDRAN Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, Switzerland BARRY EICHENGREEN George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economic and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USA PAUL GREGORY Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Houston, USA MICHAEL KITSON Lecturer, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UK ALBRECHT RITSCHL Professor of Economic History, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany PIERRE SIKLOS Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada JOEL SAILORS Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Houston, USA JOHN SINGLETON Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand PETER TEMIN Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technoogy (MIT), USA PIERRE VILLA Associate Professor of Economics, Paris IX Dauphine University, France