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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 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 free-market advocates had their first full-scale treatment of this crucial subject. The damage to the intellectual world inflicted by Keynesian- and socialist-style treatments would be limited from that day forward.
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"In today's shaky economic times, this authoritative tome-first published in 1964-has discovered newfound credibility and, in this version, narrator Tom Weiner's voice is a key element to the book's magisterial air…Weiner's voice is almost musical in its bouncing rhythms and resonating clarity. His sterling tone suits the dry prose and complex theories of the book."
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"The Wall Street collapse...and the Great Depression which followed it were among the most important events of the twentieth century…[Rothbard's explanation] turned the conventional one on its head…His book is an intellectual tour de force…It has stood the test of time with success, even panache."
Paul Johnson, award-winning historian