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To: marginmike who wrote (89635)	4/3/2001 9:19:26 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

The ones I like the best so far are Charles Kindleberger's "The World in Depression, 1929-1939", and Peter Temin's "Lessons from the Great Depression." I am getting a lot of useful facts from Joseph S. Davis, "The World Between The Wars, 1919-1939." I've got half a dozen others lying around. The way I am doing it is trying to focus on one aspect at a time and look at it through the eyes of different authors to try to get a more balanced point of view. As you are no doubt aware, different economic theorists duel to the academic death about the Great Depression, and every one of them has a different theory, so you have to wade through tons of theories to get to the facts. There's monetary, classical, Keynesian, Austrian, Marxist, I don't know what-all points of view, and they all think they are right and they all come to different conclusions, of course. Martin Armstrong, www.princetoneconomics.com, has a book written on a more popular level posted on his website, each chapter a PDF file. It's quite long but my printer prints 17 pages a minute and holds a ream of paper so it's not much of a problem for me. Brad deLong, who seems to be sort of in the Paul Krugman school, has some chapters of a book on his website, too. I recommend this introductory material very highly for an overview that's not at a difficult level: econ161.berkeley.edu For scholarly type papers, I read the abstracts on the National Bureau of Economic Research and then do a google search to see if I can find the article somewhere else, because NBER charges $5 to download a paper, and so far most of the papers can be found on another website without paying a fee. nber.org I am told that Friedman's "Monetary History of the United States" and Keyne's "Economic Consequences of the Peace" are good, and have ordered them but haven't got them yet.