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President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal “had the wit to start the political economy in a fresh, more promising direction.” Do you agree?

  • UPSC 1997
  • World Wars

Judging the New Deal (1933-39) requires separating its immediate economic record from its longer institutional legacy for the political economy of the West.

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  • Did the New Deal Actually Work Economically?
  • The "Fresh Direction": Reshaping the Political Economy
  • Historians' Verdict

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