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Hoover and Wages in the Depression: A Comment on Douglas MacKenzie
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author: Daniel Kuehn
Online Publish Date:
Category: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy
Volume 14, No. 4 (Winter 2011)   In a recent article appearing in this journal, Douglas MacKenzie (2010) argues that President Hoover’s business conferences artificially propped up wages in the early years of the Depression, aggravating unemployment. MacKenzie’s (2010) critique of Hoover fails on at least two counts: it commits an aggregation
A Critique of MacKenzie, Not an Endorsement of Hoover: Reply to Vedder and Gallaway
Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics
Author: Daniel Kuehn
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Category: Booms and Busts, U.S. Economy
Volume 15, no. 1 (Spring 2013) ABSTRACT: Vedder and  Gallaway’s  (2011) rejoinder to my comment on  MacKenzie  (2010) seems to fundamentally misunderstand both my comment’s argument and the contribution of Rose (2010). They interpreted my comment as an attempt at proving  MacKenzie  ”wrong,” when I said nothing of the sort. It was simply an