America's Great Depression

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	1963
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

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

5th Edition: Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, June 15, 2000. Hardcover. 368 pages. ISBN 0-945466-05-6. (With an introduction by Paul Johnson^[2])
4th Edition: New York: Richardson & Snyder/E.P. Dutton. 1983. Hardcover. 361 pages. ISBN 0-943940-03-6.
3rd Edition: New York: New York University Press. Co-sponsored by Institute for Humane Studies. January 1, 1975. Paperback. 361 pages. ISBN 0-8362-0647-9. Hardcover ISBN 0-8362-0634-7.
2nd Edition: Menlo Park, California: Institute for Humane Studies, 1972. 361 pages. ISBN 0-8402-5003-7.
1st Edition: Princeton, N.J.: D. Van Nostrand, 1963. Hardcover. 361 pages.

Notes

↑ Herbert Hoover's Depression, - Excerpted from chapter 7 - LewRockwell.com
↑ "Rothbard Revises the History of the Great Depression"

External links

Books by Murray Rothbard

Man, Economy, and State (1962)
The Panic of 1819 (1962)
America's Great Depression (1963)
What Has Government Done to Our Money? (1963)
Power and Market (1970)
For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973)
Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays (1974)
Conceived in Liberty (1975-79)
The Ethics of Liberty (1982)
The Mystery of Banking (1983)
The Case Against the Fed (1994)
An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought (1995)
A History of Money and Banking in the United States (2002)
The Complete Libertarian Forum (2006)
Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought (Complete, 1965–1968) (2007)
The Betrayal of the American Right (2007)

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