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Advanced Macro Sep 2018 - Jan 2019 -- Lecture 8: Explaining the Great Depression

The main portion of the lecture is devoted to explaining the Fisher Debt-Deflation Theory. First part of lecture explains the defects in the Keynesian theories, and last part briefly explains Friedman Schwartz theory that bad monetary policy caused the GD 29

There are three posts about this on WEA Pedagogy Blog -- explaining Parts A, B, C, D of the lecture