Designing a new America the origins of New Deal planning, 1890-1943 /

Main Author: Reagan, Patrick D., 1953-
Other Authors: EBSCOhost.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2000]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 362 pages) : illustrations.
Series: Political development of the American nation.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Origins of New Deal Planning
  • Organizational Change and Public-Policy Making in Modern America
  • Frederic A. Delano, Father of New Deal Planning
  • Upper-Class Duty, Managerialism, and City and Regional Planning
  • Charles E. Merriam and Social Science
  • Politics, Professionalism, and Planning
  • Wesley Clair Mitchell and Economic Research
  • Business Cycles, Social Science, and Hooverian Planning
  • Henry S. Dennison and the Middle Way
  • Business, Welfare Capitalism, and Associational Planning
  • Beardsley Ruml, Foundation Manager
  • Philanthropy, Social Science, and Public Policy
  • Organizational Nexus of New Deal Planning
  • From Hoover to FDR
  • Crucible of Planning
  • Recession, War, and Postwar Planning, 1937-1943
  • Abolition and Legacy of New Deal Planning.