mai said:
Lame argument, actually not an argument at all. Supposedely you're citing some authorities to give weight to what you imply is commonly accepted opinion (which if anything is obviously the opposite, though I'm not saying that commonly accepted views are automatically true), but didn't tell whom do you actually mean by "vast majority" nor you gave me any quotes. If you're too lazy to bother with this discussion (seriously, I can understand that, I'm starting not to care too), just tell honestly that you you don't care =) |
http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/2008/04/11/did-the-new-deal-work?PageNr=1
"In 1995, economist Robert Whaples of Wake Forest University published a survey of academic economists that asked them if they agreed with the statement, "Taken as a whole, government policies of the New Deal served to lengthen and deepen the Great Depression." Fifty-one percent disagreed, and 49 percent agreed."
51% think the New deal didn't lengthen the great depression, while 49% thing it did increase the great depression.
That's not even considering the question of "did it help at all." or "Did it shorten it at all."
How much do they teach about the New Deal in Russia anyway?
I really don't care to bring up 50 pages worth of academic economic articles to bring up the points, but I'd simply just say... if you really care, look it up.
Economists are a lot more negative about it then the general public who is taught in history class that the great deal saved us from the gerat depression.
And also that people wouldn't give Christopher Columbus money because they thought he was going to fall off the edge of the world. (Actually it was because they thought the world was larger then he thought it was... which it was... but hey his mistake let him find a whole new continent.)
