G. BALACHANDRAN Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, SwitzerlandBARRY EICHENGREEN George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economic and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USAPAUL GREGORY Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Houston, USAMICHAEL KITSON Lecturer, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UKALBRECHT RITSCHL Professor of Economic History, Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyPIERRE SIKLOS Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaJOEL SAILORS Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Houston, USAJOHN SINGLETON Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandPETER TEMIN Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technoogy (MIT), USAPIERRE VILLA Associate Professor of Economics, Paris IX Dauphine University, France

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression; T.Balderston Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada; P.Siklos France in the Depression of the Early 1930s; P.Villa Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience; M.Kitson 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany 1924-33; A.Ritschl The Slump in Interwar India; G.Balachandran New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation Without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis; J.Singleton The Soviet Union During the Great Depression: The Autarky Model; P.Gregory & J.Sailors Afterword; B.Eichengreen & P.Temin

G. BALACHANDRAN Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, SwitzerlandBARRY EICHENGREEN George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economic and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USAPAUL GREGORY Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Houston, USAMICHAEL KITSON Lecturer, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UKALBRECHT RITSCHL Professor of Economic History, Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyPIERRE SIKLOS Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaJOEL SAILORS Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Houston, USAJOHN SINGLETON Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandPETER TEMIN Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technoogy (MIT), USAPIERRE VILLA Associate Professor of Economics, Paris IX Dauphine University, France

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression; T.Balderston Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada; P.Siklos France in the Depression of the Early 1930s; P.Villa Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience; M.Kitson 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany 1924-33; A.Ritschl The Slump in Interwar India; G.Balachandran New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation Without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis; J.Singleton The Soviet Union During the Great Depression: The Autarky Model; P.Gregory & J.Sailors Afterword; B.Eichengreen & P.Temin

G. BALACHANDRAN Professor, International History and Politics, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, SwitzerlandBARRY EICHENGREEN George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economic and Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, USAPAUL GREGORY Cullen Distinguished Professor of Economics, University of Houston, USAMICHAEL KITSON Lecturer, The Judge Institute of Management, University of Cambridge, UKALBRECHT RITSCHL Professor of Economic History, Humboldt University, Berlin, GermanyPIERRE SIKLOS Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, CanadaJOEL SAILORS Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Houston, USAJOHN SINGLETON Senior Lecturer in Economic History, Victoria University of Wellington, New ZealandPETER TEMIN Elisha Gray II Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technoogy (MIT), USAPIERRE VILLA Associate Professor of Economics, Paris IX Dauphine University, France

• List of Tables List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression; T.Balderston Understanding the Great Depression in the United States versus Canada; P.Siklos France in the Depression of the Early 1930s; P.Villa Slump and Recovery: The UK Experience; M.Kitson 'Dancing on a Volcano': The Economic Recovery and Collapse of Weimar Germany 1924-33; A.Ritschl The Slump in Interwar India; G.Balachandran New Zealand in the Depression: Devaluation Without a Balance-of-Payments Crisis; J.Singleton The Soviet Union During the Great Depression: The Autarky Model; P.Gregory & J.Sailors Afterword; B.Eichengreen & P.Temin