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America's Great Depression

By: Murray N. Rothbard
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Applied Austrian economics doesn't get better than this. Murray N. Rothbard's America's Great Depression is a staple of modern economic literature and crucial for understanding a pivotal event in American and world history.

The Great Depression was not a crisis for capitalism but merely an example of the downturn part of the business cycle, which was generated by government intervention in the economy. Had this book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.

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Wonderful analysis of the Great Depression by one of the most brilliant economic and social thinkers in history.

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This book was exactly what I was looking for. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I remember studying US and World History in High School. I can still listen to my teachers talk about the different eras, such as WW1, WW2, the Great Depression…the 60s, the 70s, and the 80s. I can’t however recall ever going in depth into the economic, political aspect of the Great Depression.

I think this book gives you a great view of what happened, how it happened and why. Although there is a marked tendency to condemn the actions of the governmental administration, I believe it was justified. The story has empirical data that substantiate most of the events. Thats what I liked most about it.

I had been looking into finding a book that could open my eyes to what our economy and government was like before the depression, how it all worked. This book delivered on that. If you are a in the market for a factual account of one of our most important economic events in modern history, look no further.

I would recommend to keep google handy, since there are a lot of macro/microeconomic terminology used, and if you have not touched up on those subjects recently, you might have to between chapters.

A great look into what happened to our economy, from a purely empirical standpoint

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Summary from the end of the book:
"Economic theory demonstrates that only governmental inflation can generate a boom and bust cycle, and that the depression will be prolonged and aggravated by inflationist and other interventionary measures. In contrast to the myth of laissez-faire, we have shown in this book how government intervention generated the unsound boom of the 1920s, and how Hoover's new departure aggravated the great depression by massive measures of interference. The guilt for the great depression must, at long last, be lifted from the shoulders of the free market economy and placed where it properly belongs: at the doors of politicians, bureaucrats, and the mass of 'enlightened' economists, and in any depression, past or future, the story will be the same."

Great read. Chapter 4 was a little boring because it is a bunch of tables and statistical data, but other than that, this is a solid book explaining the Misesian Austrian Business Cycle theory, banking policy (both as it should be and as it is, which is a massive difference, determining whether the whole economic system could collapse or not due to a bank run-- 100% reserves on immediately withdrawable deposits = healthy capitalism, fractional reserves on immediately withdrawable deposits = unjust and unstable economic structure), and how Hoover's government thwarted economic growth using every anti-laissez-faire tool he could fathom.

Great read.

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I learned so much from this book. Not only about how we end up in a depression, but all the things that happen before reaching that point. What needs to happen before a comeback. So informative in so many ways. This book is so beneficial in so many was. Worth reading, but to have it read to me I think was more beneficial. I will be listening to this again.

What an informative book!

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I am thoroughly enthralled by all academic work by Murray Rothbard. This is an intense economic analysis of the American economy in the 1920s and 1930s. While the audiobook is excellent, I had also purchased the Kindle and I am so glad that I read simultaneously. This audiobook was far too complicated and sophisticated for me to follow without reading along. This put me in mind of an upper level economic textbook. This is NOT an easy easy read with a flowing narrative about American social history. It is EXCELLENT... Thank You...

A Very Intense Economic And Political History

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Great book, dull narration. Seemed like he was in a big rush. Book written with wit and sarcasm, read flat.

Not a great narration

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Rich content and convincing arguments. Completely shatters the myths of Hoover's adherence to free market principles, as the cause of America's Great Depression, and Roosevelt's messianic New Deal, as the solution. Laborious to listen to statistics!

better read than heard

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If you could sum up America's Great Depression in three words, what would they be?

Economics is normally a boring subject, but Austrian School economics tells the truth about everything. If you want to truly understand our money and what's going on you should listen to this book. I would also recommend Rothbard's other books, like What has Government Done to our Money. Richard R., Toronto

Murray Rothbard tells it like it is - or was

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All of the general rhetoric around the Great Depression is dismantled in great detail by Rothbard in this book. Hoover in his own words talks about his unprecedented interventions. Rothbard does a great job of explaining how said interventions wreck everything.

Keynesians demolished

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Not what I was expecting—thought it would be more historical than economic but it was enlightening and gave me a lot to think about.

Thought provoking

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