Postwar Expectations

-- Recession or Depression

-- Government Intervention

-- John Maynard Keynes

-- Committee for Economic Development

-- Incentives

-- Conservative Gains

The Defeat of National Planning and the Post-War Boom

-- Why didn't the US ever use economic planning as did other countries?

ð Ideology

ð Post-war Boom

1) War Bonds

2) Discharge Stipends and VA Loans

3) Housing

ð Highways

ð Tract Housing--William Levitt

ð Ripple Effect

ð Freedom or Conformity?

4) Work

5) Labor

6) Food

-- The Baby Boom

-- A Consumer Society

-- Labor Unrest After the War

ð Economic Stress

ð Anti-Labor Sentiment

-- Down-sizing

-- Strikes

-- Taft Hartley