Americas Great Depression, Murray N. Rothbard
Americas Great Depression, Murray N. Rothbard
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Americas Great Depression

Author: Murray N. Rothbard

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 9 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/15/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, History

Synopsis

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 the book appeared in the 1940s, it might have spared the world much grief. Even so, its appearance in 1963 meant that freemarket advocates had their first fullscale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian and socialiststyle treatments would be limited from that day forward.

About Murray N. Rothbard

Murray N. Rothbard (1926–1995), the author of twenty-five books and thousands of articles, was a historian, philosopher, and dean of the Austrian School of Economics. He was the S. J. Hall distinguished professor of economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and also academic vice president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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Goodreads review by Patrick on June 03, 2024

2023-04-06 Considering what has played out over the last year or so with: - major increases in prices, due to the massive Gov't spending for Covid policies and - Federal Reserve creation of extra money to pay for it (in lieu of taxes), then - the Fed's massive raising of interest rates to combat the......more

Goodreads review by Gabriel on September 13, 2013

I am deeply skeptical of the "Austrian School" of economics so I felt it important to start reading a bit more about it, if for no other reason to help sharpen my arguments against it. In that role, this book largely succeeds. It is dated, and a serious adherent to the philosophy might point me else......more

Goodreads review by Glen on October 20, 2008

Rothbard's great analysis of the causes of the Great Depression is one of the classics of Austrian economics and a must-read for serious libertarians. Rothbard presents conclusive evidence explaining the crucial mistakes made by Herbert Hoover and later exacerbated by FDR, that deepened and prolonge......more

Goodreads review by Josiah on January 03, 2023

Don't you hate it when you're talking with someone and they bring up the great depression and they say something weird, like, "if people didn't spend so much money we wouldn't have had such high inflation", or, "if the government had just stimulated the economy MORE (i.e. spent more money) then the......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on June 02, 2023

Not for the casual reader of American history, or one looking to begin economic study, but a must read for those looking to better understand economic theory and the historical account of the devastation caused by not understanding it, or its manipulation. It is fascinating to see that politics are......more

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