yeah new deal is taught in HS as some kind of coherent economic program by a visionary fdr rather than an absolutely insane fascistic madcap hodgepodge of completely off the wall shit that at various points made things better and also much much worse depending on the componenthttps://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1450484535162978308 …
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recommendation from comments, also know nothing about this unfortunately (?) my views were just picked up piecemeal from grad school papers and lorehttps://twitter.com/FreeSoilAndrew/status/1450487284927635462?t=AG9iRhcbRRmZgjCIAhmxRw&s=19 …
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sumner whos generally p sharp has a book maybe on the monetary sidehttps://twitter.com/AlexGodofsky/status/1450489458193805315?t=7Wz8Wexs_q3AX7s7yDP5fA&s=19 …
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i read this when i was on my Ron Paul bullshit and vaguely enjoyed it. just a bunch of historical case studies iirc so a good humanistic supplement to most pop econ
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i should have been buying BTC when i was on my Ron Paul bullshit
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scott sumner's book on the great depression:https://www.amazon.com/dp/1598131508/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_YSEV82Z969724Z4H4ARN …
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I’ve heard good things about that book.
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It’s pretty ok, basically agreed, goes into some nice details on Mellon, Schecter poultry, and all sorts of other damning stuff, she has a weird affection for prosperity gospel hucksters
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bob higgs' stuff on this remains underrated imho, good solid economic history this book is just a collection of his papers, so you can just find the table of contents and look them up individually, but it's a great place to starthttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/depression-war-and-cold-war-9780195182927?cc=us&lang=en&# …
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references to fdr and the new deal are primarily a cultural signal, to indicate you are the sort of person who read zinn at one point and didn't need any further argument. people are aggressively disinterested in actual details of economic history.
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fucking zinn
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