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False dawn the New Deal and the promise of recovery, 1933-1947

"A new history of the New Deal's economic recovery efforts--and why they failed to delivery on their promises. FDR's New Deal policies have long enjoyed a special place in the history of American policy and society--not just because many of them lastingly redefined the Federal government's fundament...

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Main Author: Selgin, George A., 1957- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Series:Markets and governments in economic history.
Subjects:
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Groundwork. The record
  • Inventing the New Deal
  • The banking crisis
  • The bank holiday
  • Deposit insurance
  • The RFC, part 1
  • FDR and gold
  • Part II. The New Deal. The AAA
  • The NRA
  • The NRA, coda : the Brookings report
  • A new deal for housing
  • The RFC, part 2
  • Fiscal stimulus?
  • FDR's Fed
  • The recovery so far
  • The Roosevelt recession
  • The Keynesian myth
  • The Keynesian myth, continued
  • Fear itself
  • Fear itself, continued
  • Part III. After the New Deal. War, and peace
  • The phantom depression
  • The fate of Rosie the Riveter
  • Happy days
  • Postwar monetary policy
  • The great rapprochement.

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