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Erik Benson
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Jason E. Taylor,Ranjit S. Dighe
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Ranjit S. Dighe
This paper examines the week-long U.S. bank holiday of 1933, in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt responded to a banking panic by closing all of the banks and promising that the government would review them and reopen only those that were solvent. Wh...
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Ranjit S. Dighe
Business leaders backed Prohibition until it became the law of the land, then John D. Rockefeller Sr., John D. Rockefrlle, Jr., and others reversed themselves and called for repeal. The Rockefellers supported the Anti-Saloon League and the Eighteenth Ame...
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Ranjit S. Dighe
This paper uses available quantitative and qualitative evidence from the I930s to evaluate two prominent explanations of the wage explosion of the New Deal years of 1933?41: efficiency wages and insider-outsider models. The quantitative evidence includes...
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Ranjit S. Dighe
Following the lead of influential articles by Henry Littlefield (1964) and Hugh Rockoff (1990), teachers of economic history often relate the Populist movement of the 1890s to L. Frank Baum?s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. This paper reexamines the inevitab...
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