The Volokh Conspiracy - Lessons from the Great Depression:

Tyler Cowen on the lessons for today from FDR and the Great Depression:

In short, expansionary monetary policy and wartime orders from Europe, not the well-known policies of the New Deal, did the most to make the American economy climb out of the Depression. Our current downturn will end as well someday, and, as in the '30s, the recovery will probably come for reasons that have little to do with most policy initiatives.

	[Jonathan Adler, November 23, 2008 at 9:14pm] Trackbacks Lessons from the Great Depression: Tyler Cowen on the lessons for today from FDR and the Great Depression: In short, expansionary monetary policy and wartime orders from Europe, not the well-known policies of the New Deal, did the most to make the American economy climb out of the Depression. Our current downturn will end as well someday, and, as in the '30s, the recovery will probably come for reasons that have little to do with most policy initiatives.