New Deal Research

An Overview of the New Deal

The first is a book chapter length discussion of the New Deal that summarizes a great deal of economic and economic history research on the 1930s that has been buried in academic journals.

Manuscript of the “The New Deal” from Government and the American Economy: A New History.

This is a manuscript version of the chapter taken from the author’s original manuscript and has not been reviewed or edited. The definitive published version of this extract may be found in
Price Fishback, Robert Higgs, Gary Libecap, John Wallis, Stanley Engerman, Jeffrey Hummel, Sumner LaCroix, Robert Margo, Robert McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee Alston, Joseph Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E.C. Pasour, Jr., Randal Rucker, and Werner Troesken. 2007. Government and the American Economy: A New History. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. For a preview and opportunities to purchase go to:

http://books.google.com/books?id=T_--jcqADCwC

Or

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=203865

The chapters on the rest of U.S. History are equally or more informative and written by leading scholars in the field for the general public.

The Impact of Relief and Public Work Programs on Socioeconomic Welfare During the 1930s.
Price Fishback’s Webpage.

Datasets for the Migration, Retail Sales, and Births and Deaths papers are available at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~fishback/Published_Research_Datasets.html.