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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814892503321

Autore

Rosen Elliot A. <1928->

Titolo

Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the economics of recovery / / Elliot A. Rosen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Charlottesville, Va., : University of Virginia Press, c2005

ISBN

1-283-80595-2

0-8139-3427-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

330.973/0917

Soggetti

New Deal, 1933-1939

Depressions - 1929 - United States

United States Economic conditions 1918-1945

United States Economic policy To 1933

United States Economic policy 1933-1945

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-284) and index.

Nota di contenuto

International financial crisis -- Nationalizing the economy -- Dollar devaluation and the monetary group -- Monetary policy and the Hoover-Strawn Group -- Fiscal policy and regional diversity -- The myth of a corporate state -- The limits of planning -- Trade reciprocity or the land used as concealed dole -- Relief, public works, and social insurance -- The new economics -- The national resources planning board -- Mature capitalism and developmental economics -- The economics of recovery.

Sommario/riassunto

Based on broad and extensive archival research, Roosevelt, the Great Depression, and the Economics of Recovery is at once an erudite and authoritative history of New Deal economic policy and timely background reading for current debates on domestic and global economic policy.