The New deal at War: Alphabet agencies' expenditure patterns, 1940-1945

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 251-277

  Bateman, Fred ^a   Taylor, Jason E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Franklin Roosevelt; Government spending; New Deal; War; World War II

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038793531     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4983(03)00026-3     Document Type: Article

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