Great Depression Myths with Price Fishback

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Podcast: Econ Nerds Live

Episode: Great Depression Myths with Price Fishback

Pub date: 2025-07-26

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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…