[rjtavares]

Honest question: reading the "Political activism" section of the author's wikipedia article[1] gives me no hope of an unbiased analysis of the situation. In the book, does he try to give a balanced view, or is it a reflection of his own views as an anti-statist Austrian School economist?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Rothbard#Political_acti...

[kriro]

It's applied Austrian Economics (what they call history as opposed to theory). It's a pretty good read even if you think Austrians are crackpot-crazy. The train of thought is pretty logically structured. I'm not really aware of a balanced view on the topic so it's a decent idea to start just reading the different views in extreme.

I'd also recommend Friedman's "A Monetary History of the United States" (with a part about the Great Depression) for a Monetarist POV.

"The Great Crash, 1929" by Galbraith provides yet another (institutionalist/Post-Keynesian) POV.

Rothbard was a pretty good scholar even if you completely disagree with him. His "An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought" is a pretty good and well researched set of books.

[rjtavares]

Thank you!