The Earth in Despair, 1929–1939


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In this magisterial account of the Wonderful Melancholy, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes 3 components that carry on to condition world wide monetary markets: worry, the ability of contagion, and value of hegemony. Reissued on its fortieth anniversary with a new foreword by Barry J. Eichengreen and J. Bradford DeLong, this masterpiece of financial background shows why U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, all through the darkest hours of the 2008 world economical disaster, turned to Kindleberger and his peers for guidance.

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