num_pages: 320
description: From the Nobel Prizewinning economist and former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve a landmark book that provides vital lessons for understanding financial crises and their sometimes-catastrophic economic effectsAs chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the Global Financial Crisis Ben Bernanke helped avert a greater financial disaster than the Great Depression. And he did so by drawing directly on what he had learned from years of studying the causes of the economic catastrophe of the 1930swork for which he was later awarded the Nobel Prize. This influential work is collected in Essays on the Great Depression  an immensely influential account of the origins of the Depression and the economic lessons it teaches.
language: English
title: Essays on the Great Depression
publisher: Princeton University Press