America's Great Depression

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This article is about the book. For the Great Depression as it took place in the United States, see Great Depression in the United States.
America's Great Depression
First edition
Author Murray Rothbard
Country United States
Language English
Subject Economic history
Publisher Van Nostrand
Publication date
Media type Print
Pages 361
OCLC 173706

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.

Brief summary[edit]

Rothbard holds the interventionist policies of the Herbert Hoover administration responsible for magnifying the duration, breadth, and intensity of the Great Depression.[1] 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.

Publishing history[edit]


  1. ^ Herbert Hoover's Depression, - Excerpted from chapter 7 -
  2. ^ "Rothbard Revises the History of the Great Depression"

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