The New Deal was a packet of economic policies and measures introduced by the American government to deal with the Great Depression during the years 1929-1933. | VNU Journal of Science: Economics and Business, Vol. 30, No. 5E (2014) 65-75 DISCUSSION Keynes’ Theory on America’s Great Depression: An Essay Eighty Years since the “First New Deal” (1933-1934)” Agree with New Title Nguyễn Quốc Việt*,1, Nguyễn Minh Thảo2ác 1 VNU, University of Economics and Business, 144 Xuân Thủy Str., Cầu Giấy Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam 2 Central Institute of Economic Management - MPI Vietnam, 68 Phan Đình Phùng Str., Ba Đình Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam Received 11 December 2014 Revised 15 December 2014; Accepted 25 December 2014 Abstract: The New Deal was a packet of economic policies and measures introduced by the American government to deal with the Great Depression during the years 1929-1933. The First New Deal was introduced in the first term of the thirty-second US president, Franklin Roosevelt (1882-1945). After 80 years, we can ask questions about the impacts of The New Deal, especially on the increasing influence of state interference and regulation of the economy. To analyze the basis of The New Deal, we need to understand Keynes’ theory on America’s Great Depression. Keynes is known as the “father of modern economics” because he was the first to accurately describe some of the causes and cures for recessions and depressions. Do Keynes ideals help us to understand the current economic recession of the world economy that has some things in common with the Great Depression, and to understand the current economic policies and measures of governments around the modern world? Those questions are the main goal of our paper on 80 years since the “First New Deal” (1933-1934). Keywords: Great depression, Keynes’ theory, economic history. 1. Introduction * origins of its four main phases: (i) the Great Collapse, from 1929 to 1933; (ii) the Great Stagnation, from 1933 to 1937; (iii) the abortive recovery and recession toward the end of the 1930s; and (iv) the actual recovery at the start of World War II. The issue at stake in this paper concerns the .
