The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly (Princeton Legacy Library) - Softcover

Hawley, Ellis W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691005648 ISBN 13: 9780691005645

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1969

Synopsis

The massive depression of the 1930's detonated the crisis between harsh reality and the vision of material abundance and economic security created by the American industrial order. Amid widespread poverty there was increasing concentration of economic power and loss of individual initiative. Professor Hawley traces the pattern of this conflict. He analyzes the National Recovery Administration, the sources and nature of the antitrust ideology, the rise of Keynesianism, the confusion within the Roosevelt Administration during the recession of 1937-38, and the government career of Thurman Arnold. Attention is given to the administrators of the New Deal and to the beliefs, pressures, and symbols that affected their policy decisions. How and why these ideas and pressures produced policies that were economically inconsistent yet politically workable is also explained.

Originally published in 1966.

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Review

"Thoroughly researched, clearly written, sharply thought out and focused ... a major contribution to the history of economic thought."

From the Back Cover

During the New Deal and since, both liberals and conservatives have cited the Roosevelt administration's policy toward monopoly as an example of illogical consistency....This superb book...makes clear that the inconsistency was the result of political tugging and hauling rather than the president's muddy thinking...Thoroughly researched, clearly written, sharply thought out and focused, this book is a major contribution to the history of economic thought"." -- 'The Journal of American History'

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691005648
• ISBN 13: 9780691005645
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 544