We tend to view prolonged economic downturns, such as the Great Depression of the 1930s
and the Long Depression of the late nineteenth century, in terms of the crisis and pain they …

The Great Depression is one of the most studied topics in American economic history, and
one about which scholars remain in serious disagreement. Perhaps the topic is too big, and …

Because of the Depression's place in both the popular and academic imagination, and the
repeated and justifiable emphasis on output that was not produced, income that was not …

This paper surveys the causes of American business cycles for the century 1890-1990.
Causes are taken to be exogenous shocks to a model with largely endogenous policy …

The great housing convulsion that buffeted America between 2000 and 2010 has historical
precedents, from the frontier land boom of the 1790s to the skyscraper craze of the 1920s …

Urban scholars have recently begun to employ transaction costs as a heuristic device to
understand the land use planning process. This emphasis on transaction costs can be …

America's 'infatuation with homeownership'has been identified as one cause of the latest
financial crisis. Based on codings of 1809 party manifestos in 19 countries since 1945, this …

The global economic crisis of 2008 was precipitated by a housing market crash, thus
highlighting the destabilizing influence of the property cycle upon the wider economy. This …

Abstract The New Deal during the 1930s was arguably the largest peace-time expansion in
federal government activity in American history. Until recently, there had been very little …

Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these
books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold …