Collaboration Quote by Jon Meacham

It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.

— Ben Shapiro

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

— Robert Kiyosaki

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes,…

— Ha-Joon Chang

“Increasingly economic historians can draw analogies between the development of the present crisis and the period between the two world wars, as well as…

— André Gunder Frank

“both the Great Depression and World War II directly contributed to the Great Leap.”

— Robert J. Gordon

If war production should remain the only way out of a long-term depression, industrial society would be reduced to the choice between suicide through…

— Peter Drucker

In the large sense the primary cause of the Great Depression was the war of 1914-1918. Without the war there would have been no…

— Herbert Hoover

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been…

— C. L. R. James

World War II was really unusual, because America was in the Great Depression before. So the war did help the US economy to get…

— Joseph Stiglitz

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters.

— James Tobin

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private…

— Milton Friedman

“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system…

— Andrew Feinstein