Peddling Panaceas : Popular Economists in the New Deal Era

ISBN-13: 9781412807241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str.

Gary Best

Opis

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. During this period, orthodox economists were largely discredited, both in the White House and among the public. Three of the most popular and influential figures of the period-Edward A. Rumely, Stuart Chase, and David Cushman Coyle-were not trained in economics. In Peddling Panaceas, Gary Dean Best analyzes their remedies for the Depression, their proposals for permanent economic reform, and their infl uence on the New Deal. Each of these men represented one of the three principal economic factions within the New Deal. The inflationists within the New Deal found support from the Committee for the Nation, which was largely the creation of Edward Rumely, a physician-turned-educator-turned-businessman-turned newspaper publisher-turned-amateur economist. Rumely's committee was influential in the early New Deal. The planners within the New Deal were represented in popular magazines and books by Stuart Chase, who was an engineer and accountant before he began to expound on economics.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Gary Best