Ep 11: The Truth About The Great Depression with Lawrence W Reed

Summary – The Truth About The Great Depression with Lawrence W Reed

An interview with Lawrence W. Reed, President emeritus of The Foundation for Economic Education, about his booklet Great Myths of the Great Depression. We talk about the Progressive Era as the context for the government policies that brought about the Great Depression, and discuss several commonly misunderstood elements that caused or perpetuated the Great Depression. We conclude with a note about personal character.

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Additional Resources

• The Progressive Era, by Murray Rothbard
  https://mises.org/library/progressive-era-0
• America’s Great Depression, by Murray Rothbard
  https://mises.org/library/americas-great-depression
• The Case Against The Fed, by Murray Rothbard
  https://mises.org/library/case-against-fed-0
• The Great Depression, by Hans Sennholz
  https://mises.org/library/great-depression
• Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression, by Tom Woods
  audio: https://mises.org/library/14-herbert-hoover-and-great-depression
• Truth about the Great Depression, by Thomas DiLorenzo
  audio: https://mises.org/library/9-truth-about-great-depression