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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II

Presented by Murray N. Rothbard in Fall 1986 at New York Polytechnic University. Recorded by Hans-Hermann Hoppe.
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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
9. The Progressive Era? from 2010-01-19T00:00

Progressive movement came in in 1900 to eliminate political parties. Technocrats and bureaucrats take over political power. Rural versus urban. Eliminate mayors, eliminate voting altogether, hav...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
10. Cartelization of Banking: The Fed from 2010-01-19T00:00

Bernard Baruch ran WWI as an absolute collectivist controller. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913 by Morgan men to cartelize the banking system and limit competition. Production and prices ...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
11. Woodrow Wilson and World War I from 2010-01-19T00:00

Where did Benjamin Strong - head of the Fed - come from? Rothbard continues to reveal the individuals who shaped our world and wars. Morgan's empire brought us the irrational and useless WWI...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
12. The Great Cooperation from 2010-01-19T00:00

Public housing, planned cities, government power plants, and coerced unionism were all part of the great cooperation between corporations and government through WWI and WWII.  Milton Friedm...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
13. Politics and the Power Elite from 2010-01-19T00:00

With WWII, Morgans get their war in Europe; Rockefellers get their war in Asia. Both sides are happy. Rockefellers take over foreign relations and create the Trilateral Commission, while electin...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
8. Regulation and Public Utilities from 2010-01-18T00:00

State dominated cartels used intellectuals as apologists for the government. Big unionism was to transmit orders to the working class. Public utilities were government monopolies for fifty year ...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
3. The Decline of Laissez-Faire from 2010-01-16T00:00

Economics is a constant fight between the market and the government. The railroad cartel did not work against the free market even with ideal conditions. Airlines were tightly regulated until th...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
4. The Rise and Fall of Monopolies from 2010-01-16T00:00

Petroleum entered the industrial scene in 1859 with John D. Rockefeller's hard work. As the first manufacturing corporation, Standard Oil created a monopoly in kerosene refining by buying ot...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
5. Pietism and the Power Brokers from 2010-01-16T00:00

When pietists shift to the Republican party, they form the progressive movement of 1900-1920. Rockefeller- McKinley forms alliances with power brokers like Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Harriman (ve...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
6. Tariffs, Inflation, Anti-Trust and Cartels from 2010-01-16T00:00

The Sherman Act outlawed restraint of trade. The Clayton Act added to that. Anti-Trust hysteria came in the 1940-50s. Whatever you did would be considered monopolistic. The charges didn't co...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
7. Theodore Roosevelt: Master Reformer from 2010-01-16T00:00

Assassinations in American are only by lone nuts. No one who benefits is ever suspected, like Lyndon Johnson. The progressive period saw a re-alliance of church and state - secularized extreme P...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
1. The Civil War and Its Legacy from 2010-01-15T00:00

How does government intervene in the economy? What are the consequences? What are the motivations behind passing these interventions? The lives of the people involved explain why they do these t...

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The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II
2. The Railroading of the American People from 2010-01-15T00:00

The railroads experienced both enormous growth and enormous government intervention. Land was closed off from settlement, causing farmers to oppose the privileged railroads. Markets were skewed....

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