Industrial Reserve Army | Nouriel Roubini | Joseph Stiglitz

Industrial Reserve Army | Nouriel Roubini | Joseph Stiglitz

In the last few decades, the economic climate has shifted dramatically. Globalisation has created an Industrial Reserve Army of millions.

Sir Mervyn King “I think, in emerging market economies, an overwhelming majority vote in favour of what has happened because almost everyone is better off than they were, and would have been. But that’s less evident in the industrialised world where many lower paid people have become even lower paid relative to those who have prospered, and that is a concern.”

New Deal | Great Depression | Hoover Dam | John Maynard Keynes

New Deal | Great Depression | Hoover Dam | John Maynard Keynes

At the time of the Great Depression, in the so-called New Deal, the Hoover Dam was the largest construction project on the planet. Hoover City was just one of the results.

Hoover Dam might have helped the local area, but it’s actually a myth that the New Deal ended the Great Depression. It took a world war and all the extra government spending that went with that, finally, to bring the economy out of the doldrums.

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