Pursuing praxis

October 29, 2008

We forget the news so quickly…

General news item, 2004. "FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate."

Concluding paragraph:

"The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes," Cole said. "Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened."

Original article available here.






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