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Informationen zum Autor Sheila Collins, PhD, Professor of Political Science Emerita, William Patterson University Gertrude Goldberg, PhD, Professor of Political Science Emerita, Adelphi University School of Social Work Klappentext This book offers new perspectives on comparisons of the intersection of economic and environmental crises of these two periods. Zusammenfassung The global financial crisis of 2007-2008 was the most severe since The Great Depression. This book is a methodical evaluation of the parallels between the Great Depression and the 2007-2008 global economic meltdown. Although many books have been written on this topic, the unique aspect of this book is the analysis of the positive and negative lessons for contemporary policy-making of the New Deal response to the crisis, through viewing both the New Deal and recent economic crisis as a combination with the current environmental crises. It also will assess the politics of the market and the regulatory failures by helping readers better understand the structure of these crises and the constitutional reforms proposed to mollify them. This book offers new perspectives on comparisons of the intersection of economic and environmental crises of these two periods. Integrating a unique blend of disciplines, it plans to demonstrate some possible ways of escaping our malaise, approaches that were begun but never fulfilled in the 1930s, that were raised as possibilities by popular movements but never allowed onto the political agenda, or approaches that were simply unforeseen in an earlier era. Thus, the book presents a set of guideposts, some beneficial, some cautionary, for the future. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTENTS Introduction Chapter 1 Public Attitudes Toward Government: The Social and Political Contexts of the Great Depression and Great Recession Sheila D. Collins Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Crises: A Comparative View of the Political Economy of the Great Depression and Great Recession Volker Janssen Chapter 3: The Bottom-Up Recovery: A New Deal in Banking and Public Finance Timothy A. Canova Chapter 4: A Decade of Dissent: The New Deal and Popular Movements Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Chapter 5: Labor Militancy and the New Deal: Some Lessons for Today Richard McIntyre Chapter 6: The New Deal's Direct Job Creation Strategy: Providing Employment Assurance for American Workers Philip Harvey Chapter 7: The New Deal and the Creation of an American Welfare State Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg Chapter 8: The Democratization of Culture: The Legacy of the New Deal Arts Programs Sheila D. Collins Naomi Rosenblum Chapter 9: The Rightful Heritage of All: The Environmental Lessons of the Great Depression and the New Deal Response Sheila D. Collins Chapter 10: New Deal Agricultural Policy: The Unintended Consequences of Supply Management Bill Winders Chapter 11 Conclusion: Learning from the Successes and Failures of the New Deal Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg ...
