America’s First Business Cycle: A Reappraisal of the Recession of 1797 and the Macroeconomic Events of the 1770s

03/14/2010 Nicholas Curott

Recorded March 13, 2010, at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama.

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