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Language English Publication date 1963 Pages 361 Originally published 1963 Page count 361 Subject Economic history | 4.2/5 Goodreads Publisher Van Nostrand Media type Print OCLC 173706 Genre Non-fiction Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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America's Great Depression is a 1963 treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes, written by Austrian School economist and author Murray Rothbard. The fifth edition was released in 2000.
Contents
Brief summary
Rothbard holds the interventionist policies of the Herbert Hoover administration responsible for magnifying the duration, breadth, and intensity of the Great Depression. Rothbard explains the Austrian theory of the business cycle, which holds that government manipulation of the money supply sets the stage for the familiar "boom-bust" phases of the modern market. He then details the inflationary policies of the Federal Reserve from 1921 to 1929 as evidence that the depression was essentially caused not by speculation, but by government and central bank interference in the market.