What - or who - started the great depression?

Journal of Economic Theory

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2310-2335

  Ohanian, Lee E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEAPOLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Deflation; Great Depression; Herbert Hoover; Unionization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349607181     PISSN: 00220531     EISSN: 10957235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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