The Great Depression, economics professor debunks libertarian myths. I'm in a bad mood.

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I think perhaps the best thing you can do is get a ipod and start downloading all the lectures from the Mises institute. You will be surprised how quickly you pick up on libertarianism and its traditions. I can recommend some good lecturers.

For history:
-Thomas Woods

  • Joseph Stromberg is EXCELLENT

  • David Gordon is like the librarian of the Mises Institute and I mean that in the most honorable fashion. He is like a walking library of knowledge

  • Ralph Raico is pretty good.

  • John Denson is good on war and foreign policy

  • Tom DiLorenzo is pretty good

  • Of course Murray Rothbard is an excellent historian

For philosophy:

  • Roderick Long is second to none

For Economics:

  • Robert Murphy is humorous and good

  • Walter Block is excellent

  • Yuri Maltsev is good on Marxist economics

  • Joseph Salerno is pretty good

For Current Events:

  • Lew Rockwell is second to none

For Mises technical information and status on the website and its message:

  • Jeffrey Tucker is second to none

All of these people have podcasts that you can listen to with an ipod. To paraphrase Jeffrey Tucker, someone can literally wake up and listen to Mises lectures the entire day if one were so inclined. Plus you have the entire Mises library at your fingertips. All the journals that were published by them and even some that were before our time. It’s all right here!

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Thanks for that great list!

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Democracy For Breakfast,

You’re wasting your time on this forum, we’re only hear to help you go in the right direction. For now put down the video games and go search around for articles, journals, books to read, and lectures. Since you want to talk about the Great Depression, I recommend these books:

Banking and the Business Cycle by C.A. Phillips, T.F. McManus, and R.W. Nelson( It’s for free on this website and it’s my favorite book on the Great Depression, at least when it’s dealing with the stock market bubble)

America’s Great Depression by Murray N. Rothbard

Depression, War, and Cold War by Robert Higgs (Chps 1-5 specifically)

Out of Work:Unemployment and Government in 20th Century America by Richard K. Vedder and Lowell E. Gallaway

FDR’s Folly by Jim Powell(I heard it was pretty decent)

Rothbard’s A History of Money and Banking in the United States has a section talking about banking during Hoover and Roosevelt.

Before you do any of this learn the basics of Austrian Business Cycle Theory. I recommend that lecture by Walter Block in Seatle called “Ticka, Ticka You Need Good Timin’.”

This should occupy your time. Also, before I forget, ignore your friend. Don’t bother talking to him, he’s only a waste of time and it’s obvious that he doesn’t really care about discussing it.

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If you want to read a book on the Great Depression from an Austrian perspective, Rothbard’s America’s Great Depression is the best (for the years between 1929 and 1932), but a much easier book to read would be Robert Murphy’s The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Great Depression and the New Deal.

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Thanks to you too for the list.

And the advice about the pal is right on the money [excuse the pun]. Besides, one has to set ones own house in order, in this case wade through those books and find out what’s what, before debating with others.

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Huh? ARe you syaing Im not Libertarian?

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WHere can I download these Podcasts?

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Do you have iTunes?