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Uncommon Knowledge: The Great Depression with Amity Shlaes

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Uncommon Knowledge: The Great Depression with Amity Shlaes
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Added: 17-11-2008
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Amity Shlaes challenges the received wisdom that the Great Depression occurred because capitalism broke and that it ended because FDR, and government in general, came to the rescue. According to Shlaes, it was the government that made the Great Depression worse. And was FDRs progressivism, as evident in the New Deal, really all that new, or was it a step along a progressive continuum that already had been established?

She is the author a the book, "The Forgotten Man." The title reminds me of the character Eddie Willers from Atlas Shrugged. It is a shame that when the industrialists are punished, so are all the people who rely on them.


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