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1. • • It caused steep declines in output, severe unemployment, and acute deflation and led to extreme human suffering and profound changes in economic policy.
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   How did the Great Depression affect macroeconomic policy?

   • The Great Depression also played a crucial role in the development of macroeconomic policies intended to temper economic downturns and upturns.

   Great Depression - Economic Crisis, Unemployment, Poverty

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   Why was the Great Depression a shock to economics?

   • The Great Depression came as a shock to what was then the conventional wisdom of economics. To see why, we must go back to the classical tradition of macroeconomics that dominated the economics profession when the Depression began.

   17.1 The Great Depression and Keynesian Economics

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   Did economic analysis prevent a repeat of the Great Depression?

   • Accepting that the financial crisis was allowed to happen and was not predicted, at least the policy response based on economic analysis and historical experience prevented a repeat of the trauma of the Great Depression.

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   How did monetary policy affect the depression?

   • There is no doubt that monetary policy had serious adverse effects during the worst depression years. Unemployment was one of the great curses of the depression. Widely accepted estimates show that the percentage of the US civilian labour force without work rose from 2.9 in 1929 to 22.9 in 1932 (Table 2).

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   How did the Great Depression affect America?

   • Aside from the Civil War, the Great Depression was the gravest crisis in American history. Just as in the Civil War, the United States appeared—at least at the start of the 1930s—to be falling apart. But for all the turbulence and the panic, the ultimate effects of the Great Depression were less revolutionary than reassuring.

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   How did the depression affect the economy?

   • Periodically, it seemed that the depression had bottomed out and recovery was under way. In spite of a destabilizing fall in consumption during 1930 (Temin, 1976) it seemed possible that the economy would revive. This expectation was quashed by a wave of bank failures at the end of the year.

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   Aug 25, 2024 · The Great Depression also played a crucial role in the development of macroeconomic policies intended to temper economic downturns and upturns. The central role of reduced spending and monetary contraction in the Depression led British economist John Maynard Keynes to develop the ideas in his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money ...

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   Jun 10, 2024 · Policy Remedies. In the wake of the Great Depression, economists started advocating the use of government policy to improve the functioning of the macroeconomy. There are two kinds of government policy.

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   Jul 13, 2024 · The Great Depression was a devastating and prolonged economic depression that followed the crash of the U.S. stock market in 1929. It ended with the Second World War.

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   Oct 1, 2010 · Why and how did the depression spread so that it became an international catastrophe? What role did financial crises play in prolonging and transmitting economic shocks? How effective were national economic policy measures designed to lessen the impact of the depression? Did governments try to coordinate their economic policies? If not, then ...

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8. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca › great-depressionThe Great Depression in Canada - The Canadian Encyclopedia

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   Jul 11, 2013 · However, there is consensus that the Depression was the result of widespread drops in world commodity prices and sudden declines in economic demand and credit. These factors led to rapid declines in global trade and rising unemployment. In Canada, the changes were dramatic.

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   Explain the basic assumptions of the classical school of thought that dominated macroeconomic thinking before the Great Depression, and tell why the severity of the Depression struck a major blow to this view.

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    Oct 29, 2009 · The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in modern history, lasting from 1929 until the beginning of World War II in 1939. The causes of the Great Depression included slowing consumer...