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Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

Jonathan M. F. Catalán — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:25:41 GMT

Laughing Man:

MatthewWilliam:
Why would Woods print a picture of a beer glass...?

Tom Woods does keg stands. A true historical fact

I was surprised at how much professional libertarian economists party. I won't give names. :P

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

Jonathan M. F. Catalán — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:24:46 GMT

MountainGoat:

I am in the middle of reading Thomas Woods' "Meltdown" and on page 94 of my edition, in chapter 5, while discussing the depression of 1920 - 1921 he notes that "y the middle of 1920 the downturn in production had become severe, falling by 21 percent over the following twelve months"

There was no footnote listed for this quote, so was curious if anybody had any ideas on where to get sourcing for this data?

Thanks ahead of time!

Vedder & Gallaway, Out of Work, p. 63.

It has a table of different statistics, including factory output. Using the first quarter of 1920 as the base year (100), it would fall to its lowest (69.6) in the first and second quarters of 1921.

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

DanielMuff — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:56:18 GMT

Laughing Man:

MatthewWilliam:
Why would Woods print a picture of a beer glass...?

Tom Woods does keg stands. A true historical fact

Youtube?

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

Andrew Cain — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:38:08 GMT

MatthewWilliam:
Why would Woods print a picture of a beer glass...?

Tom Woods does keg stands. A true historical fact

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

MatthewWilliam — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:45:09 GMT

MountainGoat:
"y the middle of 1920 the downturn in production had become severe, falling by 21 percent over the following twelve months"

Why would Woods print a picture of a beer glass...?

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

Andrew Cain — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:59:01 GMT

Wilmot of Rochester:
But to be honest, I didn't find the book academic enough. I realize this was probably not what Woods was aiming for, but still the book just bored me.

It is obviously for the laymen. If you hang around Mises forums long enough, it becomes very basic. I believe that was the aim of Dr. Woods. A book that the average individual who is merely asking 'what the hell happened?'

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

Wilmot of Rochester — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:53:17 GMT

Anarchist Cain:

liberty student:
This ^^ Tom will answer thoughtful, polite and succinct emails. He's also a member of this community.

Yes and Dr. Woods is nice enough to respond to you as quickly as he can. Rather nice, concise fellow.

I'll third this.

But to be honest, I didn't find the book academic enough. I realize this was probably not what Woods was aiming for, but still the book just bored me.

Giles Stratton is right on The Invisible Hook, though. Very fun read.

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

Andrew Cain — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:46:29 GMT

liberty student:
This ^^ Tom will answer thoughtful, polite and succinct emails. He's also a member of this community.

Yes and Dr. Woods is nice enough to respond to you as quickly as he can. Rather nice, concise fellow.

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

liberty student — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:01:42 GMT

Daniel:

Try emailing Tom Woods himself.

This ^^ Tom will answer thoughtful, polite and succinct emails. He's also a member of this community.

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

hayekianxyz — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:59:26 GMT

Forget The Meltdown get The Invisible Hook instead.

Re: Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

DanielMuff — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:56:18 GMT

Try emailing Tom Woods himself.

Sourcing From Thomas Woods' Meltdown

MountainGoat — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:14:36 GMT

I am in the middle of reading Thomas Woods' "Meltdown" and on page 94 of my edition, in chapter 5, while discussing the depression of 1920 - 1921 he notes that "y the middle of 1920 the downturn in production had become severe, falling by 21 percent over the following twelve months"

There was no footnote listed for this quote, so was curious if anybody had any ideas on where to get sourcing for this data?

Thanks ahead of time!