Hoover"s approach to the Depression was guided by his firm views in "laissez-faire" economics. As Hugh Brogan writes. "Hoover [was not] inhumane. But he had always been an ideologist, who believed in what he called American individualism". This approach meant that he policies were inadequate for coping with the enormity of the economic crisis.Guiding questions:What were the economic effects of the Depression by 1932?