The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Great Depression and The
New Deal by Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D. April 15, 2010 by Bob
Livingston Chances are what you learned in school about the
causes of the Great Depression and the effects of the New Deal
and Word War II on the American economy are all wrong. If you
were taught to believe the free market caused the Great
Depression and the New Deal and World War II got us out of it,
reading The Politically Incorrect Guide to The Great Depression
and The New Deal will set you straight. Murphy earned his Ph.D.
in economics at New York University and served as a professor at
Hillsdale College. He is now an adjunct scholar with the Ludwig
von Mises Institute, a senior fellow in business and economic
studies at the Pacific Research Institute and economist with
both the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Institute for
Energy Research. In The Politically Incorrect Guide, Murphy
provides irrefutable evidence that the not only did government
interference with the market cause