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A Reading List for Economic Historians on the Great Recession of 2007–2009: Its Causes and Consequences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

LARRY NEAL
LARRY NEAL*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Abstract

“Someday you guys are going to need to tell me how we ended up with a system like this….we're not doing something right if we're stuck with these miserable choices.” President Bush, to Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, after his briefing on September 16, 20081

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REVIEW ARTICLE
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 71 , Issue 4 , December 2011 , pp. 1099 - 1106
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 2011

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References

WORKS REVIEWED

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REFERENCES

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