Prior to the financial crisis of 2007-2008, economists thought that no such crisis could or
would ever happen again in the United States, that financial events of such magnitude were …

1 Although agricultural problems continued from the 1920s into the 1930s, the Depression
was not caused by shocks relating to a real estate bust. The Great Depression was caused …

The great housing convulsion that buffeted America between 2000 and 2010 has historical
precedents, from the frontier land boom of the 1790s to the skyscraper craze of the 1920s …

There are two major problems in identifying the output effects of banking panics of the pre–
Great Depression era. First, it is not clear when panics occurred because prior panic series …

Drawing on seven years of his own research and the work of other esteemed Lincoln
scholars, Shenk reveals how the sixteenth president harnessed his depression to fuel his …

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What is really educational and beneficial to students of history is the clear view of the causes
of events, and the consequent power of choosing the better policy in a particular case. Now …

The author thanks conference participants, Allan Meltzer, and Joseph Mason, for helpbul
comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. 5.1 Introduction Pundits, policy makers, and …

The McGraw campaign lacked the resources to overcome these attacks. 2 Benjamin beat
McGraw 53 percent to 47 percent and became the deciding vote to overturn the jury verdict …

The breakdown of the monopoly of coinage in Spanish America by the 1820s meant the
cessation of the silver standard that had fueled the expansion of global trade in the early …