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World Depression and the Price Level

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A.J. Brown
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Abstract

The object of this article is to examine the behaviour of the price level in major world depression, mainly for the sake of any light that may be thrown on the process of price formation in general and on the present situation in particular.

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National Institute Economic Review , Volume 123 , February 1988, pp. 65 - 79
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Copyright © 1988 National Institute of Economic and Social Research

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