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Chapter 1, Part 1: Direct and straightforward effects of bank credit expansion
Chapter 1, Part 2: Secondary effects of the boom-bust cycle and recommendations for government policy
Chapter 2: Keynesian objections to Austrian Business Cycle Theory
Chapter 3, Part 1: Rothbard vs. Overproduction Theory, Underconsumption Theory, and the Acceleration Principle
Chapter 3, Part 2: Rothbard vs. Dearth of Investment Opportunities Theory, Schumpeter’s Business Cycle Theory, Qualitative Credit Doctrines, and Overoptimism and Overpessimism Theories
Chapter 4, Part 1: Inflationary aspects leading up to the Depression, including a definition of the money supply and coverage of reserve requirements and total reserves
Chapter 4, Part 2: Four additional sources of inflation
Chapter 5: The cast of characters
Chapter 6: The lure of a stable price level
Chapter 7: Hoover’s interventionist policies from 1920-1929
Chapter 8: The start of the Depression; Hoover’s bullying and cartelization efforts
Chapter 9: The ups and downs of 1930
Chapter 10: The events of 1931
Chapter 11, Part 1: Hoover flails some more in 1932
Chapter 11, Part 2: Attempts to reflate in 1932–efforts and agitation
Chapter 12: Hoover’s last few months–failed policy and false confidence
Appendix: Rothbard and the Private Product