The Panic of 1819, Murray Rothbard's incisive and extremely well-styled Columbia University dissertation, provides a fascinating history of the era and an answer to the question of when and how the boom died.
Mark Skousen
Mark Skousen holds the Benjamin Franklin Chair of Management at Grantham University, which honored Skousen by renaming its business school "The Mark Skousen School of Business." He is a former president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and a member of the Mont Pelerin Society.
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Mark Skousen Saving the Depression: A New Look at World War II Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Paper Capture Plug-in
From The Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 3, 1989.