Peddling Panaceas - Popular Economists in the New Deal Era

Klappentext In Peddling Panaceas! Best introduces readers to three popular New Deal economists * Edward A. Rumely! Stuart Chase! and David Cushman Coyle - who not only influenced policy but also educated the American public about the Depression. Their views and influence help us understand the economic and political climate of the 1930s. Zusammenfassung As the Great Depression dragged on without a recovery, Americans were avid for anything that would help them to understand its causes and possible solutions Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface, Introduction, 1. The Committee for the Nation, 2. The Committee for the Nation and the New Deal, 3. The Decline of the Committee for the Nation, 4. The Emergence of Stuart Chase, 5. Stuart Chase and the New Deal, 6. Stuart Chase and the Second New Deal, 7. David Cushman Coyle and the Irrepressible Conflict, 8. David Cushman Coyle and the Second New Deal, 9. David Cushman Coyle and the Decline of the New Deal, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index

Product details

• Authors: Gary Dean Best
• Assisted by: Gary Best (Editor), Gary Dean Best (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2005
• EAN: 9780765802880
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0288-0
• No. of pages: 273
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; USA, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, United States of America, USA, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Economic theory and philosophy