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Mar 02, 2017 murray rothbard was an instrumental figure in the rebirth of the austrian school of economics. Putting aside rothbard s philosophy, america s great depression is a useful exposition of rothbard s economic ideology and the austrian school of economics he was associated with. The great depression was a failure not of capitalism but of the hyperactive state. Oct 14, 2011 and, in rothbard s argument, the net effect of the hooverroosevelt continuum of policy was to make the slump more severe and to prolong it virtually to the end of the 1930s. Murray rothbard was a prolific thinker whose contributions to economics were numerous, original, and significant.
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Rothbard takes the opportunity to argue using ample statistics that surges in the overall supply of money in the 1920s boom years caused by the federal reserve banks easy money policies made a. Few economists manage to produce a body of work that boasts a serious following twenty years after their deaths. It was written in 1969 and published in the form of a tiny book that achieved a huge circulation. Rothbard opens the text with a succinct explanation of the business cycle theory before addressing the history of the great depression. The book is an allencompassing and comprehensive analysis of money and banking in the united states, and its evolution from. Rothbard 19261995 was an economist of the austrian school and a major theoretical exponent of the libertarian movement in america. Murray rothbard, an exceptional american the american. Sep 01, 2001 rothbard offered the austrian view anew in 1963. 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. Since it first appeared in 1963, it has been the definitive treatment of the causes of the depression. The majority of the book is dedicated to rothbards narrative of the history leading up to the great depression and hoovers response to the crisis. This book applies austrian business cycle theory to understanding the onset of the 1929 great depression. There is no hiding the fact that rothbard sees the men, motives and actions of the era as being either right or wrong.
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