著者

河内 信幸

出版者

岐阜聖徳学園大学

雑誌

聖徳学園岐阜教育大学紀要 (ISSN:09160175)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.32, pp.165-188, 1996-09-30

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Franklin D. Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" gave hope to millions of impoverished Americans during the Great Depression, but the intractabilityof the economic situation left much of his pledge unfulfilled. This paper seeks to explain why the American depression of the 1930s lasted so long. I have studied a system, a structure of economic life and how it came to gref in the time between the world wars. The economic collapse of the 1930s, inducing major changes in the role of government in American life, and preceding a war that dramatically altered the nation's role in world affairs, has been examined in a wide variety of ways. A study that explicitly offers an explanation of the depression's length should contribute to the histrians argument that in the thirties exceptional economic conditions transformed the country's political and social framework. Moreoverm it should afford the economist some useful insights regarding business and unemployment.