| Description |
xxxii, 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Princeton classic edition |
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Princeton classic editions |
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Princeton classic editions.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- New Preface by Anna Jacobson Schwartz -- Introduction: The Great Contraction, Seen from the Perspective of 2007 by Peter L. Bernstein -- The Great Contraction 1929-1933 by Milton Friedman and Anna Jacobson Schwartz -- Remarks by Ben S. Bernanke -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- List of Figures -- Chart 16 -- Money Stock, Income, Prices, and Velocity, in Reference Cycle Expansions and Contractions, 1914¿33 -- NOTE: Shaded areas represent business contractions; unshaded areas, business expansions. -- SOURCE: Industrial production, seasonally adjusted, from Industrial Production, 1959 Revision, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 1960, p. S-151 (manufacturing and mining production only). Other data, same as for Chart 62. -- Chart 27 -- Money Stock, Currency, and Commercial Bank Deposits, Monthly, 1929¿March 1933 -- SOURCE: Table A-1. -- Chart 28 -- Prices, Personal Income, and Industrial Production, Monthly, 1929¿March 1933 -- SOURCE: Industrial production, same as for Chart 16. Wholesale price index, same as for Chart 62. Personal income, Business Cycle Indicators (Princeton for NBER, G. H. Moore, ed., 1961), Vol. II, p. 139. -- Chart 29 -- Common Stock Prices, Interest Yields, and Discount Rates of Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Monthly, 1929¿March 1933 -- SOURCE: Common stock price index, Standard and Poor¿s, as published in Common-Stock Indexes, 1871¿1937 (Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, Bloomington, Ind., Principia Press, 1938), p. 67. Discount rates, Banking and Monetary Statistics, p. 441. Other data, same as for Chart 35. -- Chart 30 -- Deposits of Suspended Commercial Banks, Monthly, 1929¿February 1933 -- SOURCE: Data from Federal Reserve Bulletin, Sept. 1937, p. 909, were adjusted for seasonal variations by the monthly mean method, applied 1921¿33. -- Chart 31 -- The Stock of Money and Its Proximate Determinants, Monthly, 1929¿March 1933 -- SOURCE: Tables A-1 (col. 8) and B-3. -- Chart 32 -- High-Powered Money, by Assets and Liabilities of the Treasury and Federal Reserve Banks, Monthly, 1929¿March 1933 -- NOTE: Federal Reserve notes, Treasury currency, and gold coin and certificates are outside the Treasury and Federal Reserve Banks. -- SOURCE: Same as for Chart 19. -- Chart 33 -- Federal Reserve Credit Outstanding, by Types, Monthly, 1929¿March 1933 -- SOURCE: Same as for Chart 22, except that all seasonal adjustments are by Shiskin-Eisenpress method (reference given in source for Chart 21) |
| Notes |
"A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
United States. Federal Reserve Board -- History.
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Depressions -- United States.
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Money -- United States -- History.
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Currency question -- United States -- History.
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Monetary policy -- United States -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
United States -- Economic conditions -- 1918-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140023
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| Author |
Schwartz, Anna J. (Anna Jacobson), 1915-2012.
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National Bureau of Economic Research.
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| LC no. |
2008007509 |
| ISBN |
9780691137940 paperback alkaline paper |
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0691137943 paperback alkaline paper |
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