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Galbraith's best-seller "The Great Crash 1929 <ref name=Galbraith> John Kenneth Galbraith: ''The Great Crash 1929'', Penguin Books, 1992</ref> was probably responsible for the popular belief that the crash was the consequence of the bursting of a speculative ''bubble''; and (although it did not say so) the belief that it had caused the [[Great Depression]]. He argued that the stock exchange boom had been due to misplaced confidence in the prospect of perpetually and increasing prices - confidence that had been bound to weaken at some stage - and that when that happened and some people began to sell, the illusion had been destroyed, provoking a rush to unload. His account of immense bursts of buying, mostly on the margin, give a convincing impression of furious speculation, and he makes it clear that that was the view of the authorities at the time who come in for criticism for not taking convincing action to curb it. | Galbraith's best-seller "The Great Crash 1929 <ref name=Galbraith> John Kenneth Galbraith: ''The Great Crash 1929'', Penguin Books, 1992</ref> was probably responsible for the popular belief that the crash was the consequence of the bursting of a speculative ''bubble''; and (although it did not say so) the belief that it had caused the [[Great Depression]]. He argued that the stock exchange boom had been due to misplaced confidence in the prospect of perpetually and increasing prices - confidence that had been bound to weaken at some stage - and that when that happened and some people began to sell, the illusion had been destroyed, provoking a rush to unload. His account of immense bursts of buying, mostly on the margin, give a convincing impression of furious speculation, and he makes it clear that that was the view of the authorities at the time - who come in for criticism for not taking convincing action to curb it. | ||
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Economists on the crash
Galbraith
Galbraith's best-seller "The Great Crash 1929 [1] was probably responsible for the popular belief that the crash was the consequence of the bursting of a speculative bubble; and (although it did not say so) the belief that it had caused the Great Depression. He argued that the stock exchange boom had been due to misplaced confidence in the prospect of perpetually and increasing prices - confidence that had been bound to weaken at some stage - and that when that happened and some people began to sell, the illusion had been destroyed, provoking a rush to unload. His account of immense bursts of buying, mostly on the margin, give a convincing impression of furious speculation, and he makes it clear that that was the view of the authorities at the time - who come in for criticism for not taking convincing action to curb it.
Friedman
Bernanke
References
- ↑ John Kenneth Galbraith: The Great Crash 1929, Penguin Books, 1992
- ↑ Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz A Monetary History of the United States 1867-1960, Princeton University Press for NBER, 1963
- ↑ Ben Bernanke: Asset-Price "Bubbles" and Monetary Policy, speech at the New York Chapter of the National Association for Business Economics, October 15, 2002[1]
- ↑ Ellen McGrattan: The Stock Market Crash of 1929: Irving Fisher Was Right!, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Research Department Staff Report 294, December 2001[[2]]