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Building New Deal Liberalism : The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 - Jason Scott Smith

Building New Deal Liberalism

The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956

By: Jason Scott Smith

Paperback | 16 November 2009

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This book provides a historical study of New Deal public works programs and their role in transforming the American economy, landscape, and political system during the twentieth century. Reconstructing the story of how reformers used public authority to reshape the nation, Jason Scott Smith argues that the New Deal produced a revolution in state-sponsored economic development. The scale and scope of this dramatic federal investment in infrastructure laid crucial foundations - sometimes literally - for postwar growth, presaging the national highways and the military-industrial complex. This impressive and exhaustively researched analysis underscores the importance of the New Deal in comprehending political and economic change in modern America by placing political economy at the center of the 'new political history'. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources, Smith provides a reinterpretation of the relationship between the New Deal's welfare state and American liberalism.
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'The book has much to praise. Smith provides an interesting account of many dramatic changes in policy, explaining how politicians and bureaucrats responded to external events ... and to their experiences with the administrative difficulties and corruption that inevitably occur when establishing such large government programs. Furthermore, I found the book very pleasant to read, thanks to the careful writing and citations.' The Journal of Economic History
'In this impressively researched study of public works in the United States, Jason Scott smith argues that public investment and state-sponsored economic development are essential to a modern economy and that during the period under examination, public investment was used to spur economic development.' History

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Non-FictionPolitics & GovernmentPolitical Ideologies & MovementsHistoryRegional & National HistoryHistory of the AmericasEarliest Times to Present Day20th Century History from 1900 to 2000EconomicsPolitical EconomyEconomic History

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