Fear Itself: The Politics of Fear & The New Deal
March 15, 2019
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as posted by the channelIs politics driven by fear as much as anything else? How do we understand our political and economic fears? The 1929 crash and the Great Depression that followed had no obvious cause, and some have argued was made worse by spreading fear that delegitimizes the efficient markets hypothesis. Fear also spread in the form of neurasthenia at the end of the 19th century. Similarly, Ira Katznelson argues that Roosevelt's New Deal was motivated as much by fear of the loss of segregation and fear of communism as anything else. How can we rationalize our emotions when it comes to politics?
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Richard Joyce, the Rational Fear of Monsters, British Journal of Aesthetics
Harold James, 1929: The New York Stock Market Crash
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Ira Katznelson, Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
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