The Current Financial Crisis: What Should We Learn from the Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century?

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  • 421
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  • 2009-04-01
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  • Studying the experience of countries that have experienced great depressions during the twentieth century teaches us that massive public interventions in the economy to maintain employment and investment during a financial crisis can, if they distort incentives enough, lead to a great depression.

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  • Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Research Department
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  • Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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