History assginment (The Great Crash)

[HBM11]

 Hi, I am in mty final yaer of High school in New Zealand. I have a history assginment to do on the the Economic Boom and Bust of the 20's and 30's. We have been given free rein on how we approch this as long as we have good references, so I want to approch this from a Austrian perspective.

What are some good resources that I could reference?

 

Thanks

[SimonF]

Stefan did a program on this, I seem to recall it as being taken from a book or paper.

[Hannibal]

 

 Hi, I am in mty final yaer of High school in New Zealand. I have a history assginment to do on the the Economic Boom and Bust of the 20's and 30's. We have been given free rein on how we approch this as long as we have good references, so I want to approch this from a Austrian perspective.

What are some good resources that I could reference?

 

Thanks

 

 

Look on mises.org. Lots of good revisionist history there.

[Tate]

 

 

 Hi, I am in mty final yaer of High school in New Zealand. I have a history assginment to do on the the Economic Boom and Bust of the 20's and 30's. We have been given free rein on how we approch this as long as we have good references, so I want to approch this from a Austrian perspective.

What are some good resources that I could reference?

 

Thanks

 

 

Look on mises.org. Lots of good revisionist history there.

 

I think the resource that the people of mises.org would point to is Rothbard's America's Great Depression (http://mises.org/rothbard/agd.pdf)

[Guest NateC]

A great book I just read is Garet Garrett's A Bubble that Broke the World.  In the words of Jeff Tucker, G.G. chronicled the Great Depression in real time, explaining that the unchecked debt accumulation was made possible by the Federal Reserve.  G.G. also has a great explaination of the value of capital and labor.

[Brandon Buck _BB_]

I second Garet Garrett's, A Bubble that Broke the World. It's a very well written historical account and it's easy to read.

[HBM11]

Stefan did a program on this, I seem to recall it as being taken from a book or paper.

Thanks, this gives a good background for some of my research but I'm going to have to dig a little deeper to find good reference material.

anarchobuddy[/url] "]

I think the resource that the people of mises.org would point to is Rothbard's America's Great Depression (http://mises.org/rothbard/agd.pdf)

I actually found this myself just before you recommended it. It has some very good well researched information in it that I will defiantly use.

A great book I just read is Garet Garrett's A Bubble that Broke the World.  In the words of Jeff Tucker, G.G. chronicled the Great Depression in real time, explaining that the unchecked debt accumulation was made possible by the Federal Reserve.  G.G. also has a great explaination of the value of capital and labor.

I will have to look this one up. I am especially interested in finding out more about how the Federal Reserves actions may have caused the stock market crash.

 

[zg7666]

Nice, try this older discussions: 
http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/t/38200.aspx

http://board.freedomainradio.com/forums/t/37983.aspx

http://mises.org/misesreview_detail.aspx?control=357 -
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal; Robert P. Murphy

http://mises.org/daily/5001/Hazlitt-and-Keynes-Opposite-Callings 

Or v=7QLoeehMw0w&list=PLDBD3648E87A4810B&index=52 - Top Three Myths
about the Great Depression and the New Dea

http://mises.org/daily/3788 ;http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Depression_of_1920%E2%80%9321

"FDR's accused Herbert Hoover of "reckless and extravagant
spending," and he further denounced the Republican incumbent for believing
"we ought to center control of everything in Washington as rapidly as
possible.""



http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Great_Depression - for more "POLITICALLY INCORRECT GUIDE
TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE NEW DEAL" -https://mises.org/store/Product2.aspx?ProductId=580

https://mises.org/store/Product2.aspx?ProductId=63&CategoryId=18
video: 

Genesis: http://mises.org/daily/2845

"Defending the Austrian Explanation of the Great Depression from an
Internet Attack" - http://mises.org/daily/5826/Defending-the-Austrian-Explanation-of-the-Great-Depression-from-an-Internet-Attack

Henry Morgenthau, "the secretary of the treasury" in '39. 

" ...said before the Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee in
1939:

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever
spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am
wrong...somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I
want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have
never made good on our promises....I say after eight years of this
Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started....And an
enormous debt to boot!""

Dalje o '38. "By the end of 1938, on the eve of World War II, the U.S.
unemployment rate still hovered at just over 18 percent and was higher than it
was in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first year in office. This
occurred despite (or rather, because of) six years of unprecedented levels of
government intervention into the U.S. economy. The American recovery was slower
than in most European nations; by 1937 Great Britain's unemployment rate had
declined to 10.3 percent."

 - short video The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law | Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

 

Economic Cycles Before the Fed | Thomas E Woods, Jr. - 

http://mises.org/daily/5174/Life-with-the-Fed-Sunshine-and-Lollipops

"The Fed wasn't our first central bank, it was our third. Secondly banking
has been under the federal government's thumb since 1863 or so. Even before
that the individual states had a system of charters that was in large part due
to Jackson's economic policies."

A History of Money and Banking in the United States" Murray Rothbard
dispels of the idea that there really was a "Long Depression" (http://mises.org/books/historyofmoney.pdf pg
154-155). Industrial Production during that decade was done for a good number
of years, but was higher at the end of the decade than at the beginning (I want
to say the index numbers were 29 and 42 for the beginning and end of the decade
respectively, but I don't remember off the top of my head).

http://mises.org/media/4639 -
The Fed's Dismal Record!!!!!

http://mises.org/media.aspx?action=category&ID=114

http://mises.org/media/4639

http://mises.org/media/5705/A-Century-of-Failure-Why-Its-Time-to-Consider-Replacing-the-Fed

 

[HBM11]

Thank you very much zg7666. That is a very comprehensive list of resources there. I will be taking a look at all of them and I’m sure I will use many of them.