What could be more timely, than a review of this book? The good professor takes us through a brief explanation of the Austrian theory of the business cycle and then examines the Great Depression of 1929. The particular focus of this work is 1929 and Hoover’s response to the Depression. In brief the thesis is:
Mr. Hoover met the challenge of the Great Depression by acting quickly and decisively, indeed almost continuously throughout his term of office, putting into effect “the greatest program of offense and defense” against depression ever attempted in America. Bravely he used every modern economic “tool,” every device of progressive and “enlightened” economics, every facet of government planning, to combat the depression. For the first time, laissez-faire was boldly thrown overboard and every governmental weapon thrown into the breach. America had awakened, and was now ready to use the State to the hilt, unhampered by…
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