Great Depression Myths with Price Fishback

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Great Depression Myths with Price Fishback

Econ Nerds Live

1 hour 24 minutes 57 seconds

3 months ago

Great Depression Myths with Price Fishback

In this episode, we have economic historian Price Fishback on to bust Great Depression myths, including:

What Hoover actually did
Whether the New Deal was truly Keynesian
Unemployment vs. underemployment
Whether the New Deal was a cohesive policy
The role of HOLC redlining maps

Check out Fishback's JEL article here https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jel.20161054

And his book chapter in this volume:

https://www.amazon.com/Government-American-Economy-New-History/dp/0226251284

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