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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 18: The Recovery So Far

George Selgin/June 1, 2022June 19, 2022

(Although my contributions to this series have so far been more-or-less in their proper order, this one isn't:  it occurred to me only relatively recently that it would be worthwhile to take stock of the overall progress of the recovery up to the outbreak of the Roosevelt…

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The New Deal and Recovery, Part 15: The Keynesian Myth

George Selgin/March 16, 2022June 19, 2022 /3 Comments

(The first of an essay in 3 installments.) In The Money Makers, his 2015 book on the New Deal and its aftermath, Eric Rauchway says that FDR "conducted an active monetary and fiscal program of recovery…working along lines suggested by Keynes." His book's subtitle in turn declares…

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