Publications by Richard A. Walker
The Living New Deal: The Unsung Benefits of the New Deal for the United States and California
August 1, 2010 • Working Papers • By Gray Brechin and Richard A. Walker
The New Deal was one of the great public experiments in American history. Crafted pragmatically by the Roosevelt administration to fight the Great Depression of the 1930s, it helped the…
California, Pivot of the Great Recession
March 1, 2010 • Working Papers • By Ashok Bardhan and Richard A. Walker
The financial crisis that struck in 2008 marked the onset of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The newly dubbed ‘Great Recession’ is a worldwide…