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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Main Points of Discussion
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
