TY  - JOUR
AU  - Temin,Peter
TI  - The Great Depression
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 62
PY  - 1994
Y2  - November 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0062
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0062.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Peter Temin
Department of Economics
MIT, Room E52-271A
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA  02142-1347
Tel: 617/253-3126
Fax: 617/253-1330
E-Mail: ptemin@mit.edu
AB  - This history of the Great Depression was prepared for The Cambridge Economic History of the United States.  It describes real and imagined causes of the Depression, bank failures and deflation, the Fed and the gold standard, the start of recovery, the first New Deal, and the second New Deal.  I argue that adherence to the gold standard caused the Depression, that abandoning gold started recovery, and that several of the New Deal measures adopted in the recovery lasted in good order for half a century.
ER  -