Talk:Long Depression

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It seems to me this article has some contradictory information and doesn't really explain clearly any consensus of what the "Long Depression" actually was, whether it was a Depression at all, and what its effects were. Could someone with knowledge of the economies of this time period possibly clarify and clean up this article?76.110.200.142 (talk) 00:38, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Causes of the crisis

The crisis is caused both by an abundance of gold and a shortage of gold? If those are competing theories, then the article might be improved by stressing that point.

[edit] Long Depression a figment of Hobsbawn's imagination?

I've just read opening chapter of Age of Imperialism and in it H simultaneously talks about the contraction during these years, while on another note he makes the contradictional claim that growth was stronger during these years than in the decades before. I've also studied Paul Kennedy's The Rise an Fall of the Great Powers, which actually shows very robust growth during this era. When googling +"long depression" -medication -psychic -life -canyon -valley the results seem to indicate that the hits are based on H's argument. Prezen 16:05, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

While awaiting a response from someone more knowledgeable than me in 19th century Economics I added Paul Kennedy's table. Prezen 18:11, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering about that, since it doesn't seem to fit the thesis of the rest of the article. Netdance 22:08, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] = What did Germany do with the gold? =[

[User:Thetfordian]] introduced an odd sentence into the "Causes of the crisis section" on 22nd Oct 2007:

"Germany went on to gold and the price of silver started to fall causing considerable losses of asset values."

What did Germany do? Why did it cause the price of silver to fall?

210.23.138.171 (talk) 10:16, 17 December 2007 (UTC)