Description: This 1996 book explains how economists helped to shape the American economy during the years of the New Deal and the Second World War.
Review Quotes: "...[later generations of economists]...will find in it a source of pride at the status their forebearers achieved....Barber has performed a valuable service in synthesizing much that was already known and unearthing much that was new from his study of the archival material." Herbert Stein, Journal of Economic Literature