America's Great Depression
America's Great Depression

Author: Murray Newton Rothbard

Publisher: Ludwig von Mises Institute

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 1610161378

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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 book remains canonical today because the debate is still very alive. This book applies Austrian business cycle theory to understanding the onset of the 1929 Great Depression. Rothbard first summarizes the Austrian theory and offers a criticism of competing theories, including the views of Keynes. Rothbard then considers Federal Reserve policy in the 1920s, showing its inflationary character. The influence of Benjamin Strong, the Governor of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, was especially important. In part, his expansionary policy was motivated by his desire to help Britain sustain the pound. Strong was close friends with Montagu Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England. After the 1929 crash, Herbert Hoover followed an interventionist policy that prefigured the New Deal. He favored keeping wage rates high and thus contributed to rising unemployment. Against the popular stereotype, Rothbard shows that Hoover was not a partisan of laissez-faire.

Dark Realities
Dark Realities

Author: Wyn Derbyshire

Publisher: Spiramus Press Ltd

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1907444777

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The stock market crash came in October 1929, and America slid into deep depression. Against a background of bank failures, industrial decline, rural poverty, and unemployment, there was an outbreak of protests, strikes, and riots. Hoover was swept from power in 1932, and it fell to the new President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to revive America's fortunes with a number of ground-breaking new programs which made up the New Deal. Dark Realities covers this period in America's history. The book introduces the key figures of this time period and reveals the impact that the Great Depression had on the American people.

The Great Depression
The Great Depression

Author: Robert S. McElvaine

Publisher: Crown

Published: 2010-10-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0307774449

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One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 and today. In the twenty-five years since its publication, critics and scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine’s sweeping and authoritative history of the Great Depression as one of the best and most readable studies of the era. Combining clear-eyed insight into the machinations of politicians and economists who struggled to revive the battered economy, personal stories from the average people who were hardest hit by an economic crisis beyond their control, and an evocative depiction of the popular culture of the decade, McElvaine paints an epic picture of an America brought to its knees—but also brought together by people’s widely shared plight. In a new introduction, McElvaine draws striking parallels between the roots of the Great Depression and the economic meltdown that followed in the wake of the credit crisis of 2008. He also examines the resurgence of anti-regulation free market ideology, beginning in the Reagan era, and argues that some economists and politicians revised history and ignored the lessons of the Depression era.

The Hungry Years
The Hungry Years

Author: T. H. Watkins

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2000-09

Total Pages: 612

ISBN-13: 9780805065060

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Draws from oral histories, memoirs, local newspaper reports, and scholarly texts to tell the story of America's Great Depression in the words of people who lived through it.

America's Great Depression
America's Great Depression

Author: Murray Rothbard

Publisher: Stellar Editions

Published: 2016-03-05

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 9781987817478

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America's Great Depression is the classic treatise on the 1930s Great Depression and its root causes. Author Rothbard blames government interventionist policies for magnifying the duration, breadth, and intensity of the Great Depression. He explains how government manipulation of the money supply sets the stage for the familiar "boom-bust" phases of the modern market which we know all too well. 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. Clearly we find history tragically repeating itself today. A must-read.

Spotlight on America: The Great Depression
Spotlight on America: The Great Depression

Author: Robert W. Smith

Publisher: Teacher Created Resources

Published: 2006-01-26

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1420632183

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Encourage students to take an in-depth view of the people and events of specific eras of American history. Nonfiction reading comprehension is emphasized along with research, writing, critical thinking, working with maps, and more. Most titles include a Readers Theater.

The Great Depression
The Great Depression

Author: T. H. Watkins

Publisher: Back Bay Books

Published: 2009-10-29

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780316080439

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This companion volume to the public television series delves into the events and impact of the Great Depression. The text is illustrated throughout with photos, documents, and posters, many previously unpublished.

Crash
Crash

Author: Marc Favreau

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2018-04-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 031654583X

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The incredible true story of how real people weathered one of the most turbulent periods in American history—the Great Depression—and emerged triumphant. From the sweeping consequences of the stock market crash to the riveting stories of individuals and communities caught up in a real American dystopia, discover how the country we live in today was built in response to a time when people from all walks of life fell victim to poverty, insecurity, and fear. Meet fascinating historical characters like Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, Dorothea Lange, Walter White, and Mary McLeod Bethune. See what life was like for regular Americans as the country went from the highs of the Roaring Twenties to the lows of the Great Depression, before bouncing back again during World War II. Explore pivotal scenes such as the creation of the New Deal, life in the Dust Bowl, the sit-down strikes in Michigan, the Scottsboro case, and the rise of Father Coughlin. Packed with photographs and firsthand accounts, and written with a keen understanding of the upheaval of the 1930s, Crash shares the incredible story of how America survived—and, ultimately, thrived.

The Great Depression
The Great Depression

Author: Michael A. Bernstein

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780521379854

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This 1988 book focusses on why the American economy failed to recover from the downturn of 1929-33.