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The 173 pages that link to Great Depression, each with the reason it gives.

• Great RecessionCompared with: Comparisons with the Great Depression highlight both the crisis’s severity and the effect of later policy responses.

• Video game crash of 1983Compared with: The crash was a sector-specific market contraction, not a general economic depression.

• Panic of 1907Compared with: Its scale and duration contrasted with the shorter 1907 panic and its improvised rescues.

• Japanese asset price bubbleCompared with: Both episodes involved financial distress, but Japan’s post-bubble stagnation unfolded under different institutions and policies.

• COVID-19 recessionCompared with: Its depth and duration contrast with the sharp but comparatively brief initial COVID-19 contraction.

• Panic of 1893Compared with: It exceeded the Panic of 1893 in duration and scale while echoing its banking and employment crises.

• Baby boomCompared with: Economic hardship and delayed family formation preceded the postwar rise in births.

• Long DepressionCompared with: Its depth and breadth distinguish it from the more uneven downturn of the late nineteenth century.

• Andrew MellonCompared with: The collapse exposed the limits of Mellon’s preference for tax reductions and restrained federal intervention.

• 1920sCompared with: The Depression contrasts with the decade’s boom and exposed its financial fragility.

• Post–World War II economic expansionCompared with: Mass unemployment and collapsing output mark the opposite of postwar prosperity.