Supplemental: Couldn't, Wouldn't

The World in Depression 1929-1939, Charles P Kindleberger, 1973 (2012).

There are some really brilliant charts and figures in The World in Depression. Kindleberger rivals Braudel with his ability of fluidly integrate narrative and data. The first of these is particularly famous — as I mentioned in the review, it is known as the ‘Kindleberger spiral’. The other two I have included show different things: the web of inter-allied debts after the First World War, and how each period of the depression varied in impact across countries.