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- From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
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- Subject: Re: Libertarians and 1930's
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:15:03 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.022850.13866@midway.uchicago.edu> <92320.112633U23590@ui <1992Nov15.233547.19002@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.233547.19002@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov15.201336.3107@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> dcosley@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Daniel R Cosley) writes:
- > >ted frank claims that free markets would never have gotten the U.S. out of the
- > >Great Depression.
- >
- > It's not a claim. It's an empirical fact. Hoover shrunk government
- > spending from 1929 to 1933. Other than the tariffs (which really wouldn't
-
- But not as much as the economy was deflated. See Murray Rothbard's
- _The Great Depression_ for details. Hoover did the right thing,
- accelerating public works spending as much as possible, while reducing
- expenditures, but he didn't reduce them as much as deflation had
- shrunk the economy.
-
- > have made much difference unless Europe went Lib also), I don't see what
-
- Without the unnoticed inflation of the 1920s, the Great Depression
- wouldn't have happened, and neither would Smoot-Hawley.
-
- > Hoover did that was different from what the Libertarians would have done.
-
- Hoover also engaged in a number of jawboning efforts to reduce
- worked hours in some industries (like steel), and agricultural
- supports actually were started (on a modest scale) under Hoover.
- Not very libertarian.
-
- > ted frank | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu
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