Great Depression

The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or "depression") that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. It led to numerous bank failures, high unemployment, as well as dramatic drops in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), industrial production, stock market share prices and virtually every other measure of economic growth. It is generally considered to have bottomed out in 1933, but it was not until well after the end of World War II before such indicators as industrial production, share prices and global GDP surpassed their 1929 levels.

External links

• American Economic Policy from the Great Depression to NAFTA
• America's Great Depression — an "Austrian" interpretation by Murray Rothbard
• America's Great Depression — Timeline
• The Causes of the 1929–33 Great Collapse: A Marxian Interpretation, by James Devine
• Keynes and Friedman on the Great Depression
• Theories on the Great Depression
• The Economics of the Great Depression
• About.com: 1929 Stock Market Crash
• The Great Depression (ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu)
• The Dirty Thirties — Images of the Great Depression in Canada
• Article on Great Depression
• The Main Causes of the Depression
• Depression unemployment rates, from U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics