The World Economy and National Economies in the Interwar Slump

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: The ‘Deflationary Bias’ of the Interwar Gold Standard

   • Theo Balderston

   Pages 1-26

3. Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada

   • Pierre L. Siklos

   Pages 27-57

4. France in the Depression of the Early 1930s

   • Pierre Villa

   Pages 58-87

5. Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience

   • Michael Kitson

   Pages 88-104

6. ‘Dancing on a Volcano’: The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany, 1924–33

   • Albrecht Ritschl

   Pages 105-142

7. The Interwar Slump in India: The Periphery in a Crisis of Empire

   • G. Balachandran

   Pages 143-171

8. New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis

   • John Singleton

   Pages 172-190

9. The Soviet Union during the Great Depression: The Autarky Model

   • Paul R. Gregory, Joel Sailors

   Pages 191-210

10. ‘Afterword’: Counterfactual Histories of the Great Depression

    • Barry Eichengreen, Peter Temin

    Pages 211-221

11. Back Matter

    Pages 223-226

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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.

• depression
• economy
• evaluation
• Germany
• interaction
• research
• USA

• University of Manchester, UK

  Theo Balderston

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

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