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I think George Reisman handles that fairly well. I discuss it here: http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-misplaced-fear-of-monopoly/

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I would add that polling data indicates that racial attitudes among the public were liberalizing from the 1940s on.

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I honestly don’t know. I’ll see what I can dig up.

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It seems to concede his main point, except to say that it was a harsh and tough medicine. OK, but that begs the whole question. Grant disputes that easy money can solve anything in the long run, so it doesn’t count as an argument for a critic simply to assume that it does.

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Professor Herbener supplies me with this link: http://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-u-s-economy-in-the-1920s/

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I apologize for being so slow on this; I somehow missed this thread. I’m not fully sure how to answer your question myself; I’ll ask Kevin Gutzman at our next live Q&A session (which will be September 17, Constitution Day, by the way).

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Yes, that is correct!

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I wrote about it a bit in 33 Questions About American History You’re Not Supposed to Ask: http://tomwoods.com/books/33-questions-about-american-history-youre-not-supposed-to-ask/

Here’s a multi-part series on the issue: http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2008/05/23/into-the-bosnian-quagmire/

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I’m not sure what the answer to this question is. You might ask Professors Gutzman and McClanahan in the U.S. History to 1877 forum.

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Capparrell, _The Real Pepsi Challenge_ is another good case study of a company “doing the right thing” in the 1940s and 1950s. Also, see: http://www.realpepsichallenge.com/

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Prof. Bean recommends Desegregating the Dollar by Robert Weems.

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I’m tracking down Prof. Bean and will return with an answer shortly.

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I have been trying to figure out which article I had in mind, and it turns out it was just a Facebook update. I never elaborated on it beyond that. I probably should.

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Not very. I have a section on this in my book Rollback. Here are a few links as well:

http://tomwoods.com/blog/the-glass-steagall-myth-revisited/
http://tomwoods.com/blog/repeal-of-glass-steagall-had-nothing-to-do-with-the-crisis/
http://tomwoods.com/blog/deregulation-caused-the-financial-crisis/

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I haven’t read a full-fledged study of that period; I was in graduate school during those years, so it never seemed like history to me. It was just current events. So I haven’t read any book-length after-the-fact analysis. But I’m sure you would find some good material in James Bovard’s book Feeling Your Pain.

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