Season 2 kicks off here with an introduction to the early days of the Great Depression! Fun! Nothing did more to undermine to world order fitfully constructed during the 1920s like this mother of all economic disasters. And what really made this crisis of Capital so severe was the financial sector's implosion in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929. Suddenly, the very thing that underpinned the entire system stopped working.

Bibliography for this episode: 

1. Galbraith, James K. The Great Crash 1929 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 2009

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