Book Review: The Great Depression: Its Origins in Acceleration and Electric Drive Unit edited by Bernard C. Beaudreau

Cole Harold L. Ohanian Lee E. 2004. “New Deal Policies and the Persistence of the Great Depression: A General Equilibrium Analysis.” Journal of Political Economy 112 (4): 779–816.

Crucini Mario J. Kahn James . 1996 “Tariffs and Aggregate Economic Activity: Lessons from the Great Depression.” Journal of Monetary Economics 38 (3): 427–67.

Eichengreen Barry J. 1992. Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939. NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Fishback Price . 2017. “How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s.” Journal of Economic Literature 55 (4): 1435–85.

Fiszbein Martin Lafortune Jeanne Lewis Ethan G. Tessada José . 2020. “Powering Up Productivity: The Effects of Electrification on US Manufacturing.” NBER Working Paper w28076, National Bureau of Economic Research.

Friedman Milton Schwartz Anna Jacobson . 2008. A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960. Vol. 14. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Gaggl Paul Gray Rowena Marinescu Ioana Morin Miguel . 2021. “Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States.” Labour Economics 68: 101944.

Gray Rowena . 2013. “Taking Technology to Task: The Skill Content of Technological Change in Early Twentieth Century United States.” Explorations in Economic History 50 (3): 351–67.

Hausman Joshua K. 2016. “Fiscal Policy and Economic Recovery: The Case of the 1936 Veterans’ Bonus.” American Economic Review 106 (4): 1100–43.

Irwin Douglas A. 1998. “The Smoot-Hawley Tariff: A Quantitative Assessment.” Review of Economics and Statistics 80 (2): 326–34.

Kitchens Carl . 2014. “The Role of Publicly Provided Electricity in Economic Development: The Experience of the Tennessee Valley Authority, 1929–1955.” The Journal of Economic History 74 (2): 389–419.

Kitchens Carl Fishback Price . 2015. “Flip the Switch: The Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935–1940.” The Journal of Economic History 75 (4): 1161–95.

Lewis Joshua Severnini Edson . 2020. “Short-and Long-Run Impacts of Rural Electrification: Evidence from the Historical Rollout of the US Power Grid.” Journal of Development Economics 143: 102412.

Meltzer Allan H. 1976. “Monetary and Other Explanations of the Start of the Great Depression.” Journal of Monetary Economics 2 (4): 455–71.

Mitchener Kris James Richardson Gary . 2013. “Shadowy Banks and Financial Contagion during the Great Depression: A Retrospective on Friedman and Schwartz.” American Economic Review 103 (3): 73–78.

Neufeld John L. 2019. Selling Power: Economics, Policy, and Electric Utilities before 1940. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Richardson Gary Troost William . 2009. “Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics during the Great Depression: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Federal Reserve District Border, 1929–1933.” Journal of Political Economy 117 (6): 1031–73.

Romer Christina D. 1990. “The Great Crash and the Onset of the Great Depression.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 105 (3): 597–624.

Severnini Edson . 2023. “The Power of Hydroelectric Dams: Historical Evidence from the United States over the Twentieth Century.” The Economic Journal 133 (649): 420–59.

Ziebarth Nicolas L. 2013. “Identifying the Effects of Bank Failures from a Natural Experiment in Mississippi during the Great Depression.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 5 (1): 81–101.