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The limits of symbolic reform : the New Deal and taxation, 1933-1939

In The Limits of Symbolic Reform, Mark Leff examines the gap between politics and economics, between symbol and substance in the New Deal. He shows that Roosevelt's tax reform proposals had little fiscal significance but were politically crucial to creating an image of compassion and action.
Print Book, English, 1984
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], 1984
History
ix, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521262682, 9780521521246, 0521262682, 0521521246
10505812
Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments
Introduction: political imagery and financial reality
Part I. Prelude to Reform: The New Deal Tax System. 1933-1935: 1. Taxing the forgotten man
2. The congressional origins of soak-the-rich taxation
Part II. One Part Revenue, Two Parts Rhetoric: The Reform Impulse in the Ascendant, 1935-1937: 3. The paradox of symbolic reform: enacting a wealth tax without sharing the wealth
4. efore the fall: new deal tax reform, 1936-1937
Part III. New Deal Taxation Under Siege, 1937-1939: 5. The recession cometh
6. New deal taxation and the business community, 1937-1939
7. The unkindest cuts of all: tax legislation in 1938 and 1939
8. Taxation, symbolic politics, and the new deal legacy
Index
其他题名:The New Deal and Taxation,1933-1939