{"id":763,"date":"2025-05-14T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T20:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=763"},"modified":"2025-06-20T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T17:56:02","slug":"study-guide-for-rothbards-americas-great-depression","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?page_id=763","title":{"rendered":"Study Guide for Rothbard&#8217;s America&#8217;s Great Depression"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Show notes, reference links, and more available at each part&#8217;s page.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Video only playlists on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLdRgEGhb-VVCKc-W9GVExldr1B42m_t5j\">YouTube<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@MarginalNonHermit:3\/rothbard-depression-ch1-p1:2?lid=284e38d64793e92dee935bc0b19273093ca05591\">Odysee<\/a>.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Grab a copy of the book <a href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/book\/americas-great-depression\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=526\">Chapter 1, Part 1<\/a>: Direct and straightforward effects of bank credit expansion<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=532\">Chapter 1, Part 2<\/a>: Secondary effects of the boom-bust cycle and recommendations for government policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=540\">Chapter 2<\/a>: Keynesian objections to Austrian Business Cycle Theory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=548\">Chapter 3, Part 1<\/a>: Rothbard vs. Overproduction Theory, Underconsumption Theory, and the Acceleration Principle<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=553\">Chapter 3, Part 2<\/a>: Rothbard vs. Dearth of Investment Opportunities Theory, Schumpeter&#8217;s Business Cycle Theory, Qualitative Credit Doctrines, and Overoptimism and Overpessimism Theories<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=566\">Chapter 4, Part 1<\/a>: Inflationary aspects leading up to the Depression, including a definition of the money supply and coverage of reserve requirements and total reserves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=589\">Chapter 4, Part 2<\/a>: Four additional sources of inflation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=593\">Chapter 5<\/a>: The cast of characters<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=600\">Chapter 6<\/a>: The lure of a stable price level<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=614\">Chapter 7<\/a>: Hoover&#8217;s interventionist policies from 1920-1929<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=622\">Chapter 8<\/a>: The start of the Depression; Hoover&#8217;s bullying and cartelization efforts<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=625\">Chapter 9<\/a>: The ups and downs of 1930<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=633\">Chapter 10<\/a>: The events of 1931<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=637\">Chapter 11, Part 1<\/a>: Hoover flails some more in 1932<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=645\">Chapter 11, Part 2<\/a>: Attempts to reflate in 1932&#8211;efforts and agitation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=651\">Chapter 12<\/a>: Hoover&#8217;s last few months&#8211;failed policy and false confidence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=655\">Appendix<\/a>: Rothbard and the Private Product<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show notes, reference links, and more available at each part&#8217;s page. Video only playlists on YouTube and Odysee. Grab a copy of the book here. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":487,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-763","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/763\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}