When Government Helped

Learning from the Successes and Failures of the New Deal

Sheila Collins, Gertrude Goldberg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2014
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-999069-6 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.1.2014
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 231 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Finanzwissenschaft
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-999069-7 / 0199990697
ISBN-13	978-0-19-999069-6 / 9780199990696
Zustand	Neuware