The World Economy between the World Wars
Feinstein, Charles H.
Temin, Peter Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Toniolo, Gianni Professor of Economics, University of Venice
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-530755-9
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307559.003.0001
 

Introduction
Charles H. Feinstein
Peter Temin
Gianni Toniolo
This introduction to the book and the period covered provides a rapid summary of the most salient economic events between 1918 and 1939. This was a tumultuous period, as the unresolved tensions from the First World War led to economic catastrophe in the Great Depression and then to a resumption of world conflict in the Second World War. A brief summary of a very complex progression is presented.
Keywords: interwar economy, First World War, economic catastrophe, Great Depression, Second World War
doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195307559.003.0001
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Full Book Contents
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Interwar Economy in a Secular Perspective
Chapter 2 The Legacy of the First World War
Chapter 3 The 1920s: Crises and Currency Stabilizations
Chapter 4 Output, Productivity, and Technical Progress in the 1920s
Chapter 5 International Capital Movements in the 1920s
Chapter 6 The Onset of the Great Depression
Chapter 7 Unemployment
Chapter 8 The Fragmented World of the 1930s
Chapter 9 Industrial Progress and Recovery
Chapter 10 Epilogue: The Past and the Present
Bibliography
Index
 
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