The Recovery Act of 2009 vs. FDR's New Deal: Which Was Bigger?

Bill Dupor

The Regional Economist, 2017, vol. 25, issue 1

Abstract: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 has been called the federal government's largest economic recovery plan. But what about the New Deal? Depending on how the comparison is framed, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan could have been costlier than President Barack Obama's.

Date: 2017
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