Daniel Kuehn

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Hoover and Wages in the Depression: A Comment on Douglas MacKenzie

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Daniel Kuehn

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,

A Critique of MacKenzie, Not an Endorsement of Hoover: Reply to Vedder and Gallaway

07/30/2014 Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Daniel Kuehn

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).

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