Apropos of Paul Krugman’s demolition of George Will’s argument about the Great Depression, Brad DeLong offers a chart:
There you have it. This is far from saying that every detail of the New Deal regulatory agenda was the right thing to do then or would be the right thing to do now. But the monetary expansion associated with the New Deal helped the economy, and the attempted return to orthodoxy hurt.
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