US monetary and fiscal policy in the 1930s

Price Fishback

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2010, vol. 26, issue 3, 385-413

Abstract: The paper provides a survey of fiscal and monetary policies during the 1930s under the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations and how they influenced the policies during the recent Great Recession. The discussion of the causal impacts of monetary policy focuses on papers written in the last decade and the findings of scholars using dynamic structural general equilibrium modelling. The discussion of fiscal policy shows why economists do not see the New Deal as a Keynesian stimulus, describes the significant shift toward excise taxation during the 1930s, and surveys estimates of the impact of federal spending on local economies. The paper concludes with discussion of the lessons for the present from 1930s monetary and fiscal policy. Copyright 2010, Oxford University Press.

Date: 2010
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