George Selgin
@georgeselgin.bsky.social
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My excellent Conversation with George Selgin - Marginal REVOLUTION
My excellent Conversation with George Selgin - Marginal REVOLUTION
Here is the audio, video, and transcript. Here is part of the episode summary: Tyler and George discuss the surprising lack of fiscal and monetary stimulus in the New Deal, whether revaluing gold was really the best path to economic reflation, how much Glass-Steagall and other individual parts of the New Deal mattered, Keynes’ “very […]
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October 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
My excellent Conversation with George Selgin - Marginal REVOLUTION
My conversation with Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen on the New Deal, the Great Depression, donkeys, and much more: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXN... Pass it on!
George Selgin on the New Deal and What Ended the Great Depression (live at @catoinstitutevideo)
YouTube video by Conversations with Tyler
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October 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
My conversation with Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen on the New Deal, the Great Depression, donkeys, and much more: m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXN... Pass it on!
“Had FDR done all of the things Keynes said he should do, and none of the things Keynes said he shouldn’t do, there would have been—I have no doubt—a much more rapid recovery, a recovery that would have been complete sometime in the last half of the 1930s.” 1/2
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
“Had FDR done all of the things Keynes said he should do, and none of the things Keynes said he shouldn’t do, there would have been—I have no doubt—a much more rapid recovery, a recovery that would have been complete sometime in the last half of the 1930s.” 1/2
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George Will devoted a whole column to @georgeselgin.bsky.social, FALSE DAWN, and our bipartisan dreams about the New Deal:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Kindred spirits on the left and right believe in a New Deal fable
Donald Trump is leading the most economically interventionist U.S. administration since FDR’s.
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October 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
George Will devoted a whole column to @georgeselgin.bsky.social, FALSE DAWN, and our bipartisan dreams about the New Deal:
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
What, you missed my “Conversation with Tyler” yesterday about _False Dawn_, my book on New Deal and the Great Depression? No worries: you can now watch it on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=01YC...
False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947
YouTube video by The Cato Institute
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September 27, 2025 at 1:19 PM
What, you missed my “Conversation with Tyler” yesterday about _False Dawn_, my book on New Deal and the Great Depression? No worries: you can now watch it on YouTube: m.youtube.com/watch?v=01YC...
Washingtonians! There are still a few seats available for my Conversation with Tyler about _False Dawn_, this Friday at the Cato Institute. Join us if you can. www.cato.org/events/false...
False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947
In this groundbreaking history, Selgin examines the United States’ long and difficult road to recovery from the Great Depression—and the real legacy of the New Deal.
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September 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Washingtonians! There are still a few seats available for my Conversation with Tyler about _False Dawn_, this Friday at the Cato Institute. Join us if you can. www.cato.org/events/false...
If you’ll be in the London area at the start of October, consider coming to the IEA to hear me talk about _False Dawn_. iea.org.uk/in-conversat...
In Conversation with George Selgin
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September 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
If you’ll be in the London area at the start of October, consider coming to the IEA to hear me talk about _False Dawn_. iea.org.uk/in-conversat...
Criticize my views all you like—but please (1) don’t misrepresent them, and (2) spare me the ad hominem stuff! If my arguments are wrong, there are better ways to show it than by pointing out where I (used to) work, or what political ideals I (supposedly) hold.
Selgin is a so called “libertarian” funded by The CATO institute.
And thinks private banks rather than The Fed should act as the central clearing house.
And FDR removing us from the gold standard meant we no longer borrowed against our gold holdings or anything else
Fed Chair under FDR:
And thinks private banks rather than The Fed should act as the central clearing house.
And FDR removing us from the gold standard meant we no longer borrowed against our gold holdings or anything else
Fed Chair under FDR:
September 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Criticize my views all you like—but please (1) don’t misrepresent them, and (2) spare me the ad hominem stuff! If my arguments are wrong, there are better ways to show it than by pointing out where I (used to) work, or what political ideals I (supposedly) hold.
Eccles was a keen proponent of fiscal stimulus. Alas, he was just a keen an opponent of monetary stimulus. And since he was Fed chair, in practice his influence was mainly on the anti-stimulus side.
Selgin is a so called “libertarian” funded by The CATO institute.
And thinks private banks rather than The Fed should act as the central clearing house.
And FDR removing us from the gold standard meant we no longer borrowed against our gold holdings or anything else
Fed Chair under FDR:
And thinks private banks rather than The Fed should act as the central clearing house.
And FDR removing us from the gold standard meant we no longer borrowed against our gold holdings or anything else
Fed Chair under FDR:
September 8, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Eccles was a keen proponent of fiscal stimulus. Alas, he was just a keen an opponent of monetary stimulus. And since he was Fed chair, in practice his influence was mainly on the anti-stimulus side.
A kind review of _False Dawn_ for the WSJ by Judge Glock. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘False Dawn’ Review: The Mirage of Recovery
America’s leaders in the 1930s subjected the country to a series of bizarre economic experiments. Most of them backfired.
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June 16, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A kind review of _False Dawn_ for the WSJ by Judge Glock. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
Administration officials are comparing the tariff-induced downturn to “detox” therapy. A more precise analogy would be to leeching.
March 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Administration officials are comparing the tariff-induced downturn to “detox” therapy. A more precise analogy would be to leeching.
Yours truly on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Boondoggle: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/o...
Trump’s ‘Strategic Bitcoin Reserve’ makes no sense - The Boston Globe
The list of justifications for a government bitcoin stockpile is long, not because there are many good ones, but because there are none, so the schemes’ apologists must keep trying.
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March 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yours truly on the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Boondoggle: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/o...
Wow: a very detailed and thoughtful—and kind!—review of _False Dawn_ by Scott @MoneyIllusion Sumner. Thanks, Scott! scottsumner.substack.com/p/false-dawn?u…
False Dawn
George Selgin on the New Deal
https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/false-dawn?u…
March 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Wow: a very detailed and thoughtful—and kind!—review of _False Dawn_ by Scott @MoneyIllusion Sumner. Thanks, Scott! scottsumner.substack.com/p/false-dawn?u…
In my forthcoming book _False Dawn_, I explain how “regime uncertainty”—businessmen’s confusion about what the Roosevelt administration had in store for them—was a major reason why the Great Depression lasted as long as it did.
(Not that that’s relevant today.) www.amazon.com/False-Dawn-R...
(Not that that’s relevant today.) www.amazon.com/False-Dawn-R...
False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery, 1933–1947 (Markets and Governments in Economic History)
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March 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
In my forthcoming book _False Dawn_, I explain how “regime uncertainty”—businessmen’s confusion about what the Roosevelt administration had in store for them—was a major reason why the Great Depression lasted as long as it did.
(Not that that’s relevant today.) www.amazon.com/False-Dawn-R...
(Not that that’s relevant today.) www.amazon.com/False-Dawn-R...