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    Market Visions: Expenditure Surveys, Market Research, and Economic Planning in the New Deal
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    Thomas A. Stapleford
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    This essay explores the history of the 1935-1936 Study of Consumer Purchases, an extraordinary national survey of family incomes and expenditures undertaken by the federal government during the New Deal. Created and administered primarily left-leaning economists, the project was an order of magnitude larger and more complex than any previous expenditure survey and was intended to aid and justify state-led economic planning. Yet it failed to be an effective help to New Deal reformers, proving …

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    2007-09
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