For being here today. Well, thank you very much. And its quite an honor to be here at the fdr library and let me tell you a little bit about why i wrote the book and a little bit about myself. I actually as was mentioned have worked in the field of aging so obviously Social Security was something of great interest to me. And i was here in 1985 at the 50th anniversary of Social Security on august 14th. There were 7,000 people here there were people from Human Services groups and unions and so forth and i came back in 2005 when the 70th anniversary was held actually in 85 fdr junior was the mc and mario cuomo was the keynote speaker Claude Pepper in 2005. It was paul krugman was the speaker was the smaller occasion and then in 19 in 2010. I didnt come here but for the 75th anniversary, i was serving as the director of the state office for the aging and we had a program at the capitol and albany and also at roosevelt house down in new york city that i was at having worked in state governm
We are moving into the postwar period and then well be there for the rest of the class. Right . Were gonna start here in 1945 and go all the way until the end of the 20th century. As you know, this is the us survey so its sort of the greatest hits of American History as my job. Todays lecture though is a lecture that you get because of what i am a specialist in right . This is a lecture that maybe you wouldnt get from another professor in this Department Teaching this class. So this this lecture is really going to situate us in the 1950s and really talk about gender and families in that era. And you know as all lectures you should feel free to ask questions in the middle if you want or at the end also and zoom people the questions will be in the chat. So of all the nations in the world at the end of World War Two only the United States emerged stronger and more prosperous in when the war began. Europe and asia of course had been devastated by the war and americas but americas farms fac
Well explore that question on this edition of economics usa. Im david schoumacher. Boom or bust . Why is the economy so unstable . Factories sit idle or stagger along because nobody has any money to spend. Workers sit home without any money to spend hoping the economy gets better so they can work again. Its a pattern that repeats itself over and over again. Few people worried about trying to explain economic fluctuations during the 19th century. Americans were too busy building railroads expanding commerce overseas, or creating new industry. The years after the civil war saw a continuing expansion of the American Economy. Although this prosperity was interrupted by periodic slumps few people seemed to worry. Didnt the economy always bounce back . On the eve of world war i, economists had no theory to explain recurring downturns. Why not . We asked some economic historians. The bubbles, the panics, the convulsions, revulsions, crises, gluts, they were noticed back in the 1810s, but the
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