The Progressive Era

7 recorded talks in this archive name this book. The 6 that discuss it most, each linked to the moment it comes up:

• Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line

  Murray N. Rothbard · The Case Against the Fed

  … business by state and federal government, stretched approximately from 1900 or the late 1890s through World War I. The Progressive Era was essentially put through by the Morgans and their allies in order to cartelize American business and industry, to …

  Hear it at 6:14

• The Civil War and Its Legacy

  Murray N. Rothbard · The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II

  … both deal with a very important era, which I'll talk a lot about later on, Einstein called it the Progressive Era, which essentially, there's some dispute about what the years were, but essentially 1900 and 1917, 1918, that period where …

  Hear it at 8:08

• The Progressive Era Triple Alliance: Government as Cartellizer (continued)

  Murray N. Rothbard · 20th Century American Economic History

  Here I refer you to the classic, just a classic article by Samuel Hayes called The Politics of Reform in Municipal Government, The Progressive Era, which has been anthologized all over the place and several other things which I'll mention.

  Hear it at 36:50

• 41. From Hoover to Roosevelt: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites

  Murray N. Rothbard · A History of Money and Banking in the United States Before the Twentieth Century

  Thus, both groups were heavily represented in the drive for measures cartelizing industry that were sought and lobbied for by the National Civic Federation during the Progressive Era, and both groups joined to push through the Federal Reserve system.

  Hear it at 0:50

• The Progressive Era

  Thomas E. Woods, Jr. · History of Liberty

  And as it turns out, most of the time when you read about the Progressive Era, Woodrow Wilson is portrayed as the laissez-faire candidate.

  Hear it at 42:09

• Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

  Murray N. Rothbard · Left, Right, and the Prospects for Liberty

  Despite the cessation of important new legislative enactments, the unity of business and the Federal Government continued throughout the 1920s and thereafter, using the foundations laid in the Progressive Era to stabilize and consolidate conditions within various industries.

  Hear it at 46:35