English Summary/英文概要： In this magisterial account of the Great Depression, MIT economist Charles Kindleberger emphasizes three factors that continue to shape global financial markets: panic, the power of contagion, and importance of hegemony. Reissued on its fortieth anniversary with a new foreword by Barry J. Eichengreen and J. Bradford DeLong, this masterpiece of economic history shows why U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, during the darkest hours of the 2008 global financial crisis, turned to Kindleberger and his peers for guidance.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 麻省理工學院經濟學家查爾斯‧金德爾伯格(Charles P. Kindleberger)在這部關於大蕭條的權威著作中，強調了持續影響全球金融市場的三個因素：恐慌、傳染力、霸權的重要性。這部經濟史巨著在出版四十週年之際再版，並由巴里·J·艾肯格林(Barry Eichengreen)和J·布拉德福德·德隆(J. Bradford DeLong)撰寫了新的序言。本書揭示了為何美國財政部長勞倫斯‧薩默斯在2008年全球金融危機最黑暗的時刻向金德爾伯格及其同僚尋求指導。

Awards/获奖情况： "Kindleberger has written perhaps the finest analytical account of the run-up to the Great Depression and the ensuing run-down from it into mild recovery and eventual world war. . . . [This] brilliant book remains a carefully documented admonition to our leading spirits to ’look to the ends’ of what they are currently about." — Times Literary Supplement

J·布拉德福德·德隆(J. Bradford DeLong)是加州大學柏克萊分校經濟學教授和美國國家經濟研究局研究員。 1993年至1995年，他擔任美國財政部主管經濟政策的副助理部長。

巴里·J·艾肯格林(Barry Eichengreen)是加州大學柏克萊分校的喬治·C·帕迪和海倫·N·帕迪經濟學教授和政治學教授。他是美國國家經濟研究局的研究員、經濟政策研究中心（英國倫敦）的研究員，並曾擔任國際貨幣基金組織的高級政策顧問。

Charles P. Kindleberger (1910-2003) was an economic historian at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, he worked for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank for International Settlements before serving on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1940 to 1942. After the Second World War, he became a leading architect of the Marshall Plan. He joined the economics faculty at MIT in 1948 and retired in 1976 as the Ford International Professor of Economics.

J. Bradford DeLong is Professor of Economics at the UC Berkeley and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1993-1995, he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for Economic Policy.

Barry J. Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at UC Berkeley. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London, England), and has been a Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund.