Comment on “America’s First Great Depression”
In a recent commentary, the head of macroeconomic research for Saxo Bank, Chris Dembik, draws lessons from America’s First Great Depression for today’s European energy crisis. Read the commentary.
Posts from the ‘America’s First Great Depression’ Category
Oct 13
Translation of “America’s First Great Depression”
A Chinese translation of America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 from Cornell University Press is now available from SDX Publishing. On Amazon.
Review of “America’s First Great Depression”
The White Coat Investor reviews my book America’s First Great Depression. “The book is a fascinating study of a difficult time in American financial history and I cannot recommend it enough.” Read the review.
Mention in Columbia Tribune story on “law and order”
I’m quoted in a Columbia Tribune story that discusses the debate over “law and order” in American politics. Read the story. I discuss this more fully in my books The End of Protest and America’s First Great Depression.
IMF blog reviews “Politics of Fiscal Squeeze”
An IMF blog features a review of “The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze,” an edited volume that includes my chapter on the United States’ financial difficulties in 1837-1848.
Charles Dickens and America’s First Great Depression
The Boston Globe discusses America’s First Great Depression as part of its story about Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
Chapter in volume on “politics of fiscal squeeze”
When The Party’s Over: The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze in Perspective, has just been published by Oxford University Press. The volume is edited by Christopher Hood, David Heald, and Rozana Himaz. I’ve contributed a chapter, “Managing Fiscal Squeeze After the United States’ Panic of 1837.” Read the British Academy news release.
AFGD to be published in Chinese
SDX Publishing has signed an agreement with Cornell University Press to publish a Chinese translation of America’s First Great Depression in April 2015.
Article about AFGD on Caixin website
Edwin Winkler of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute has written an analysis of America’s First Great Depression for China’s Caixin website. Winkler says that the book “may foreshadow some future aspects of American politics and USA-PRC relations.” Read the article.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
