The Great Depression is the " defining moment" to which most historians, economists, and political scientists connect the origins of the economic and social policies that have characterized American government in the second half of the twentieth century. In the most comprehensive collection of essays available on these topics, The Defining Moment evaluates the extent to which the Great Depression was a watershed period in the history of the American economy. This volume concludes that a large role of today's government and its methods of intervention derive from the crisis years of the 1930s. Sixty years later, the basic imprint of the defining moment is still visible.
- ISBN10 0226065898
- ISBN13 9780226065892
- Publish Date 31 December 1997
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 3 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Chicago Press
- Edition 1996th ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 492
- Language English