We study the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) – the first and largest youth training program in the U.S. in operation between 1933 and 1942 – to provide the first comprehensive assessment of the short- and long-term effects of means-tested youth employment programs. We use digitized...

Mit der Einführung der EU-Taxonomie möchte die Europäische Kommission den Grundstein zur Finanzierung nachhaltigen Wachstums und zur Umsetzung der europäischen Klimaziele legen. Die für die Umsetzung des EU Green Deals erforderlichen Investitionen für Umwelt- und Klimaschutz bis 2050 sind...

Mit der Einführung der EU-Taxonomie möchte die Europäische Kommission den Grundstein zur Finanzierung nachhaltigen Wachstums und zur Umsetzung der europäischen Klimaziele legen. Die für die Umsetzung des EU Green Deals erforderlichen Investitionen für Umwelt- und Klimaschutz bis 2050 sind...

The Great Depression is among the most consequential periods in American history. The collapse that began in 1929, and the economic, social, and political consequences of the subsequent decade, have been an enormously popular subject for historians and economists. Yet, despite this significant...

During the presidential election of 1932 Franklin Roosevelt promised a New Deal for the American people. Our goal is to describe the changes wrought by the New Deal. To what extent did the New Deal expand existing programs? What new programs were created at all levels of government? How did the...

While the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is yet to subside, governments in major countries have put in place the largest-ever economic stimulus packages to overcome the pandemic. The most outstanding feature of these packages is the call for green stimulus and recovery. Governments learned from...

This paper examines the impact of New Deal relief programs on infant mortality, noninfant mortality and general fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and techniques for a panel of 114 cities for which data on relief...

The Green New Deal (GND) is a governmental strategy to strengthen the United States economy and foster inclusive growth. The GND is targeted at sharing economic growth benefits more equally within society. How to align economic interest with justice and fairness notions is the question of our...

From the neo-Weberian literature on state-building and the political sociology of the legal profession, one might expect government lawyers to be sheepdogs, nipping at the heels of straying administrators, supplying their agencies with the bureaucratic autonomy so often missing in American...

"Over the past year, the "Green New Deal" has moved from relative obscurity to front and centre of policy discussions and public debates about how to respond to the climate crisis. It has been credited with radically changing the nature of the conversation on climate change and with...

The U.S. banking holiday of March 1933 was a pivotal event in 20th century political and economic history. After closing the nation's banks for nine days, the newly inaugurated Franklin D. Roosevelt administration restarted the banking system as the first step toward national recovery from the...

There is a large body of literature analyzing the onset of the Great Depression or the factors influencing economic recovery in the 1930s, especially the New Deal. The role of income inequality before and during the Great Depression, however, has almost never been discussed thoroughly. This...

Introduction -- "The Heart of Contemporary Capitalism": The Partners and their Bank -- J.P. Morgan & Co. at home and abroad in the 1920s -- The Young Plan, the Bank for International Settlements and the Wall Street Crash, 1929-30 -- "The End of the World"? The 1931 Crises -- "Witchcraft": J.P....

The Standard Narrative and Its Defects -- Unattractive Economics in the Rural Electricity Market -- Business Attitudes toward Farmers in the 1920s -- The Lure and Lore of Rural Electrification -- Farmers on Their Own -- The Awakening of Power Company Interest in Rural Electrification -- Industry...

To stabilise the ecosystem at national, global levels, society must first transform the international financial system. The overt intent of financial globalisation is to wrench power over the domestic economy away from democratic governments and transfer this power to markets that now manage...

This chapter considers the opportunities and challenges for an effective ‘Green New Deal’ (GND), with a focus on the U.S. and Europe. We begin by reviewing the intellectual history of the GND and consider how the recent shifts in macroeconomic policy following the Covid-19 pandemic might...

Preface / Andrea Guiden-Pittman and Jenice L. View -- Stepping into the New Deal : a meet and greet / Jenice L. View -- Teaching the Indian New Deal / John R. Gram -- Centering the black experience in teaching the New Deal / Daniella Cook and Jeffrey Eargle -- Years of desperation, years of hope...

This paper follows the methodology developed by J. M. Keynes in his How to Pay for the War pamphlet to estimate the "costs" of the Green New Deal (GND) in terms of resource requirements. Instead of simply adding up estimates of the government spending that would be required, we assess resource...

By the beginning of the 20th century, the possibility and efficacy of economic planning was believed to have been proven by totalitarian experiments in Germany, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser degree, Fascist Italy; however, the possibilities and limitations of planning in capitalist...

Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, Margaret Levi, and Barry R. Weingast's excellent essay, Twentieth Century America as a Developing Country, Conflict, Institutional Change and the Evolution of Public Law (https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3340645), celebrates the period during which the National Labor...

The Green New Deal calls for the overhaul of our nation's energy, transportation and manufacturing infrastructure to support the transition to a green economy, the adaptation of the built environment to climate change, the remediation of polluted areas, the conservation of fragile and threatened...

This Roosevelt Institute working paper argues that the Green New Deal is more internationalist than is commonly thought. Surveying its five goals, 14 projects, and 15 requirements, the author argues that the majority of them are explicitly international in scope or can be extended so that they...

A number of Nobel Laureates in economics have been grappling with the problem of research, development, and transfer of clean technologies in order to tackle the climate crisis. Joseph Stiglitz has been investigating how intellectual property laws could be recalibrated and redesigned to better...

This white paper lays out the guiding vision behind the Green New Deal Resolution proposed to the U.S. Congress by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bill Markey in February of 2019. It explains the senses in which the Green New Deal is 'green' on the one hand, and a new 'New...

By the beginning of the 20th century, the possibility and efficacy of economic planning was believed to have been proven by totalitarian experiments in Germany, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser degree, Fascist Italy; however, the possibilities and limitations of planning in capitalist...

By the beginning of the 20th century, the possibility and efficacy of economic planning was believed to have been proven by totalitarian experiments in Germany, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser degree, Fascist Italy; however, the possibilities and limitations of planning in capitalist...

Für dieses Buch agiert Herausgeber C.J. Polychroniou als Fragensteller und Stichwortgeber für die beiden als Autoren genannten. Chomsky (Linguist) und Pollin (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler) geben ausführlich Antworten. So wird im Stil eines Interviews die Klimakrise beschrieben und als Lösung...