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Three short books and one that an be read in a short time, about depression economics:

Thorstein Veblen: The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904)

John K Galbraith: The Great Crash, 1929

Irving Fisher's paper on The Debt-Deflation Theory of Great Depressions is available in book form, and it's just 46 pages.

And finally, oral history:

Studs Terkel: Hard Times

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Nov 22nd, 2013 at 02:40:28 AM EST

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There are a few links to the actual article by Irving to download as pdf. Here for example. Cheaper & faster.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Fri Nov 22nd, 2013 at 05:53:24 AM EST
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The Theory of Business Enterprise is also available as an e-book from archive.org

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Nov 23rd, 2013 at 12:25:32 PM EST
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terkel was one of the best writer-historian-social observers to ever walk the planet.

must-reads also 'working' and 'the good war'.

so accessible, so evocative...

sorta like a cross of kuralt, bageant and moyers, with bells on.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Sat Nov 23rd, 2013 at 01:09:13 PM EST
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