Lords of Finance: 1929, the Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World (81 page)

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"he has not the faintest conception": Keynes, Letter to Wilfrid Eady, October 3, 1943, in
Collected Writings
, Vol. XXV, pp. 352-57.

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"The flow of alcohol is appalling": Cassidy, John. "The New World Disorder,"
New Yorker
, October 26, 1998, p 198.

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"madhouse with most people": Skidelsky,
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain
, p. 347.

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"If we can so continue": Skidelsky,
John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Britain
, p 355.

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I have yet to see any problem: Poul Anderson quote from
The Yale Book of Quotations
, 19.

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"his policies died with him": U.S. House of Representatives,
Banking Act of 1935
, Committee on Banking and Currency, 74 Congress, Ist Sess. 1935.

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"problems of life": Keynes, "Preface" in
Collected Writings: Essays in Persuasion
. 9: xviii.

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"trustees, not of civilization": Harrod,
The Life of John Maynard Keynes
, 193–94.

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A Monetary History of the United States 1857–1960,
which highlights the dysfunctional policies and decision making at the Fed; the 1973 book by Charles Kindelberger,
The World in Depression
, one of the early contemporary books to focus on the global dimension of the economic collapse; and the works of Peter Temin and Barry Eichengreen, especially Temin’s
Lessons from the Great Depression
and Eichengreen’s
Golden Fetters,
which identify the gold standard as the chief culprit for transmitting depression around the world.

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