Detailed Breakdown of Great Depression

provides a lot of facts to accompany the narrative. these bolster the understanding of how money supply moved around for example. also details time prior to 1929 crash where a lot of seeds were sewn that germinated within the crash.

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Enlightening

In a world of renewed debt monetisation at the expense of the average employee and worker, this book reminds us how governments create boom and bust cycles and long term economic depressions. Basic statistics and logic to explain what we’ve lived in since the GFC.

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Economics History and Breakdown not a story book

If you are looking for a light entertainment read, depicting the times and struggle of the Great Depression, you've come to the wrong place. This book does a thorough break down of the Economic History and causation of the Great Depression from the Austrian School of though perspective. Discussing economic measures and public policies that have lead and exacerbated the Great Depression.

Personally I found this book to be greatly educational as I am an economics graduate, however I found certain portions of the book to be difficult to get through as they are written in a technical/academic jargon that may exclude a less advanced reader. Although the narration was brilliant, certain parts of the book would be better read in a physical textbook form rather than an audio book.

Story wise the author does a great job at depicting a detailed account of steps taken by the domestic and international governments, financial institutions, trades cartel and inflation demagogues, explaining how they played a role in creating an immense economic disaster. However being an economic study, the reader may struggle to keep engaged throughout sections which are quite simply "boring" to listen to. I struggled to keep engaged throughout the litter of names, proposed regulation & schemes that were prominent in the politics of the time. Nevertheless I am pleased to have finished the book as I was able to deepen my knowledge on the credit and inflation policies effects on the economy.

If you are looking to read this book as a student I'd strongly suggest to find a physical copy in a library for note taking and examination of data tables.

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Very detailed

I think this books it’s more for economists. Well researched. It’s very detailed with lots of numbers etc.

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a history of the Great Depression, or....

thought this book was about the Great Depression. it's not: it's a boring Economics text book. with 8 hrs left, I got tired of hearing about how hoarding equals investment, and individual time constraints determine such and such; Keynesian economics says blah blah blah...

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Depressed that I wasted a credit on it!

Okay my rating and title are perhaps a little unfair. I think the problem is that Audiobooks have placed it in the History section and I suppose, lured by the picture, I thought it was going to be an historical account.



Not a bit of it!



Unless you have a PhD in Economics and have run several international monetary funds and a couple of central banks I would advise you to steer well clear of this. I think even the Governor of the Bank of England would wonder what on earth it is all about!



I confess I only listened to about 40 minutes of it on the bus but that was enough and the other passengers were complaining because I was inadvertently chewing my right leg off in agony!



I am sure for Economists it is great and I am sure the author really knows his stuff but Audiobooks I politely say that you really do need to re-classify this away from the History section.



Again I am trying to be broad-minded and all-embracing but have to say if the first 40 minutes was anything to go by it is really difficult to see why anyone would want to listen to this as an audiobook. A textbook fine, as an academic work that you can cross-reference, refer back through etc.but not an audiobook to listen to when mowing the lawn (you would probably throw yourself under the blades!).

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