Contrasting Views of the Great Depression

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Further reading:

America's Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard

The Great Depression by Lionel Robbins

The Causes of the Economic Crisis, and Other Essays Before and After the Great Depression by Ludwig von Mises


Herbert Hoover and the Myth of Laissez-Faire by Murray N. Rothbard (Chapter 15 in The Progressive Era)

Industrial Employment and the Policies of Herbert C. Hoover by Douglas W. MacKenzie

Out of Work: Unemployment and Government in Twentieth-Century America by Lowell E. Gallaway & Richard Vedder

Wages, Prices, and Employment: Von Mises and the Progressives by Lowell E. Gallaway & Richard Vedder


The Great Depression: "An Emergency More Serious Than War" by Robert Higgs (Chapter 8 in Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government)

Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War by Robert Higgs (Chapter 1 in Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy)

Wartime Prosperity? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s by Robert Higgs (Chapter 3 in Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy)

The Reality of the Wartime Economy: More Historical Evidence on Whether World War II Ended the Great Depression by Steven Horowitz and Michael J. McPhillips


The Gold Standard Did Not Cause the Great Depression: Review of Scott Sumner's 'The Midas Paradox: Financial Markets, Government Policy Shocks, and the Great Depression' by Robert P. Murphy

Taxpayers in Revolt: Tax Resistance During the Great Depression by David T. Beito