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The New Deal Order

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Jason Scott Smith
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Abstract

This essay explores how historians and others have used the concept of political economy, arguing that its application to United States history between the 1920s and 1940s helps to clarify the relationships between politics, the economy, and liberalism.

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Enterprise & Society , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , September 2008 , pp. 521 - 534
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2008. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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