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The Great Depression:Its Origins in Acceleration and Electric Unit Drive

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  • Bernard C Beaudreau

    (Université Laval, Canada)

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This book is part of a new generation of work on the events of the 1920s and 1930s, one that provides a gestalt view of this period. As such, the many events that have until now been viewed as unrelated, are viewed as parts of a greater whole, namely the introduction of a new power drive technology in the form of electric unit drive and its effects. The Roaring Twenties, the spectacular growth of the 1920s, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the Stock Market Boom and Crash, the decline in investment expenditure, the ensuing depression and the National Industrial Recovery Act are all shown to be related.

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  • Bernard C Beaudreau, 2023. "The Great Depression:Its Origins in Acceleration and Electric Unit Drive," World Scientific Books, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., number 13083.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:wsbook:13083
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    Keywords

    Great Depression; Electric Unit Drive; Acceleration; Failed Transition; Stock Market Boom and Crash; Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act; National Industrial Recovery Act;
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    JEL classification:

    • N - Economic History
    • N12 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
    • N22 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
    • B22 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought since 1925 - - - Macroeconomics
    • E02 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General - - - Institutions and the Macroeconomy

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