Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Made in Germany: the German currency crisis of July 1931; The household balance sheet, credit, and uncertainty at the onset of the great depression in the USA; Coping with financial catastrophe: the San Francisco clearinghouse during the earthquake of 1906; Can incomes policies reduce real wages? Micro-evidence from the 1931 Australian award wage cut; Decaying at the core: urban decline in Cleveland, 1915-1980; Wage-stickiness, monetary changes, and real incomes in late-medieval England and the low countries, 1300-1500: did money matter?