
America's Great Depression
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Tom Weiner
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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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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"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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What an informative book!
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A Very Intense Economic And Political History
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Not a great narration
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better read than heard
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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., TorontoMurray Rothbard tells it like it is - or was
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Keynesians demolished
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Thought provoking
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