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1929 Economic Collapse
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 27, 2019 (go to class or lectures)
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war, exchange, old, global, mature, vulnerable, Victorian, Smoot, mistakes, export, hyperinflation, lending, Europe, 1929, capital, Anstalt, nationalistic, China, Germany, Lenin
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the Treaty of Versailles produced an unstable             
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a goal of it was the rebuilding of a              economy
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but many focused on establishing the economic world as it had existed before the       
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the idea was that restoring the                    boom was a condition for the political peace
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people looking for new coordinates began to be nostalgic for the        world
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it was the crash of          that would heighten the tensions within Europe
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but the big question in 1919 was: how to rebuild
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while Wilson and            were looking forwards towards utopias, the economists and business people were looking backwards
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Keynes argued that the Allies had made some fundamental                 
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that Germany pay far too much in indemnity payments
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that British economy could not sustain the &gold& standard
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and Keynes argued that we needed
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flexible foreign                  rates
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capital controls that would control money across borders
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so that countries would not have to turn to                            policies
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Keynes saw this as the folly of the ruling classes
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end the end, the crisis finally came, in 1929
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but there was a pause for recovery in the 1920s
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had less to do with the gold standard
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had more to do with massive American                to Europe
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flow of                to the United States
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the largest borrower was               , to pay the other European countries
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the United States was an immature lender
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one that enjoys both trade surpluses and is an exporter of capital
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gold flows in
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the only way to keep the rest of the world expanding was to recirculate money to other destinations
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it was a                      system
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as            is now
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Britain before the war was a              lender
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the rest of the world was borrowing too much money
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Germany had just recovered somewhat from the                              of 1923-1924
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German and Austrian banks began to fail
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they needed emergency loans from the United States
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then came the crash on Wall Street in 1929
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Vienna: The Credit               
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a virus of bank failures across Europe
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governments were too weak save them
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1931 almost everyone had defected from the gold standard
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1933 the United State joined getting off the gold standard
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the world economy had lost its core
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increasing protectionism
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Reed            / Willis Hawley
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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over 1000 economists signed an petition to denounce this
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shrinkage in global trade
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1928 world only reached 112%
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in 1932 it was only 60% of 1929
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factories shut down since they couldn't              to other markets
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1932 there were 52 million workers were without a job
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a destruction of the global system that had built up over centuries
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