The Political Economy of the New Deal (The Locke Institute series) - Hardcover

Couch, Jim F.; Shughart II, William F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1858988993 ISBN 13: 9781858988993

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing, 1998

Synopsis

Couch (economics, U. of North Alabama) and Shughart (economics, U. of Mississippi) explore the political and economic forces that shaped the uneven distribution of federal emergency relief spending during the Great Depression. They present new empirical evidence on the Roosevelt administration's response to the economic crisis to demonstrate how this response may have been influenced more by presidential politics than by the plight of the unemployed millions. Published in conjunction with the Locke Institute which cites as its goal "to engender a greater understanding of the concept of natural rights, its implications for constitutional democracy and for economic organization in modern society." Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author:

Jim F. Couch, Associate Professor of Economics, University of North Alabama

William F. Shughart, II, Professor of Economics and holder of the P.M.B. Self, William King Self, and Henry C. Self Free Enterprise Chair, University of Mississippi

Review:

...engaging and provocative...Couch and Shughart's book provides a useful outline of some of the arguments that a public-choice-based view of the New Deal must attempt to make. They present an interesting overview of several agencies and programs, accompanied by quotes and examples that often succeed in giving the reader a feeling of being in the midst of the action. -- Barbara J. Alexander, The Journal of Economic History

This book...represents a watershed in the application of Public Choice analysis to an important episode in recent economic history. -- - Gary M. Anderson, Public Choice

About this edition

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1858988993
• ISBN 13: 9781858988993
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 264