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This course gives a historical perspective on financial panics. Topics include the growth of the industrial world, the Great Depression and surrounding events, and more recent topics such as the first oil crisis, Japanese stagnation, and conditions following the financial crisis of 2008.
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Poster of a bank run, by Strobridge and Lith Co., Cinncinnati, NY, 1895 (color lithograph). (Image courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. [reproduction number: LC-USZC4-591 (color film copy transparency)].)