Editor's Note: This column updates the original Vox columns by Barry Eichengreen and Kevin O’Rourke comparing today’s global financial crisis to the Great Depression. The previous columns have shattered all Vox readership records with over 450,000 views (O’Rourke and Eichengreen 2009).
What do the new data tell us?
Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H O’Rourke, 8 March 2010
Topics: Global crisis
Tags: Depression, global crisis, global crisis debate, global output, Great Depression, tale of two depressions, world trade
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