Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression
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چکیده
We argue that falling farm product prices, incomes, and spending may explain 10–30 percent of the 1930 U.S. output decline. Crop prices collapsed, reducing farmers’ incomes. And across states Ohio counties, auto sales fell most in crop-growing areas. The large response be explained by indebtedness. Reasonable assumptions about marginal propensity to spend farmers relative nonfarmers pass-through retail imply collapse was a powerful propagation mechanism worsening Depression.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Economic History
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0022-0507', '1471-6372']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050721000334