Essays on the Great Depression.

BERNANKE, Ben S.

Item Number: 43277

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

First edition of this influential collection of essays. Octavo, original boards. Signed twice by Ben Bernanke on the front free endpaper and again on the rear endpaper. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Tracy Baldwin.

"[H]aving devoted much of his career to studying the causes of the Great Depression, Bernanke was the academic expert on how to prevent financial crises from spinning out of control and threatening the general economy. One line from his Essays on the Great Depression sounds especially prescient today: 'To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy" (Roger Lowenstein, New York Times Magazine).