Finance ✦ Penny’s Take
Peddling Panaceas
Gary Dean Best · 2007
70/100
👍 Worth It
Gary Dean Best trains a revisionist lens on Depression-era economists who got big audiences but little scholarly attention, and EH.net's specialist reviewers found the argument convincing. It's dense academic nonfiction with narrow appeal, but within its niche — economic historians and serious Depression-era policy readers — it delivers something genuinely new.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety74
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing68
Originality73
Evidence & accuracy79
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit72
👁 Human-eye gut-check70
Penny’s verdict70
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