Publication
Minnesota Law Review
Volume
68
Page
299
Year
1983
Abstract
When the Roosevelt administration took office in March 1933, the nation was suffering from the onslaught of the Great Depression. The complex set of economic and regulatory policies constituting President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal" focused primarily on restoring health to the economy and secondarily on achieving a modicum of income redistribution. The Roosevelt administration, however, possessed neither a clear understanding of the causes of the Depression, nor a coherent, stable, and workable scheme for ending it. Nevertheless, that administration's tenure produced widespread federal economic regulation and brought ferment, imagination, and creativity to theoretical and practical regulatory techniques.
Recommended Citation
Daniel J. Gifford, The New Deal Regulatory Model: A History of Criticisms and Refinements, 68 Minn. L. Rev. 299 (1983), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/328.
