The Defining Moment

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Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Time Line
The Defining Moment Hypothesis: The Editors' Introduction
Michael D. Bordo, Claudia Goldin, Eugene N. White.
I: The Birth of Activist Macroeconomic Policy
1: Was the Great Depression a Watershed for American Monetary Policy?
Charles W. Calomiris, David C. Wheelock.
2: Fiscal Policy in the Shadow of the Great Depression
J. Bradford De Long
3: The Legacy of Deposit Insurance: The Growth, Spread, and Cost of Insuring Financial Intermediaries
Eugene N. White
II: Expanding Government
4: By Way of Analogy: The Expansion of the Federal Government in the 1930s
Hugh Rockoff
5: The Impact of the New Deal on American Federalism
John Joseph Wallis, Wallace E. Oates.
6: The Great Depression and the Regulating State: Federal Government Regulation of Agriculture, 1884-1970
Gary D. Libecap
III: Insuring Households and Workers
7: A Distinctive System: Origins and Impact of U.S. Unemployment Compensation
Katherine Baicker, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz.
8: Spurts in Union Growth: Defining Moments and Social Processes
Richard B. Freeman
9: The Genesis and Evolution of Social Security
Jeffrey A. Miron, David N. Weil.
IV: International Perspectives
10: From Smoot-Hawley to Reciprocal Trade Agreements: Changing the Course of U.S. Trade Policy in the 1930s
Douglas A. Irwin
11: The Great Depression as a Watershed: International Capital Mobility over the Long Run
Maurice Obstfeld, Alan M. Taylor.
12: Implications of the Great Depression for the Development of the International Monetary System
Michael D. Bordo, Barry Eichengreen.
Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index