ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The New Deal embraced federal deficit spending to promote economic growth, a fiscal approach that came to be associated with the British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynes argued that government spending that put money in consumers’ hands would allow them to buy products made in the private sector.

Detailed explanation-2: -For example, Keynesian economists would advocate deficit spending on labor-intensive infrastructure projects to stimulate employment and stabilize wages during economic downturns. They would raise taxes to cool the economy and prevent inflation when there is abundant demand-side growth.

Detailed explanation-3: -The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry and efforts to re-inflate the economy after prices had fallen sharply. New Deal programs included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Detailed explanation-4: -It is often stated that the first practical application of Keynesian economics was the Roosevelt New Deal. Roosevelt came to power in 1933 in the wake of the Great Crash in the USA which produced economic depression and mass unemployment in America, Canada and some European countries, notably Germany and Austria.

Detailed explanation-5: -FDR embraced Keynesian economic policies and fought to expand the role of the federal government in the nation’s economy. FDR implemented a series of projects and programs called the New Deal to stabilize the economy. Despite FDR’s New Deal, the Great Depression persisted into the late 1930s.