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The World in Depression, 1929-1939 by Charles P. Kindleberger | Session 2
Reading Group
Location:
Online
Type:
Other
YSI Presenters
Description
From the book description:
"In this magisterial account of the Great Depression, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes three factors that continue to shape global financial markets: panic, the power of contagion, and importance of hegemony."
This week's reading:
Chapter 6 – The Slide to the Abyss
Chapter 7 – 1931
Chapter 8 – More Deflation
Chapter 9 – The World Economic Conference
Hosted by Working Group(s):
Attendees
MARIUS DEBONAIRE MBETGA
Falco Drießen
Salwa Mansuri
Nicole Wang
Robert Yee
Veronika Poór
Pavel Porozov
Divya Sharma
Samhitha Narayan
Farwa Naqvi
Rajeev K. Upadhyay
Jay Pocklington
Zane Rubaii
Jonah Wolf
Ádám Kerényi
Rok Piletic
Lindsay McGrath
Alex Howlett
Aswathi Nair
Ayoze Alfageme
Siddharth Pannir
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