Friday, November 20 / 3:45 PM - 5:30 PM Room 220 (2nd Floor)

Session 127
The Ambivalence of Expertise in the Progressive and New Deal State

Chair: Ajay Mehrotra, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University
Discussant: Elizabeth Popp Berman, University of Michigan

1. The First Ecomodernists? Developmentalism in Early 20th Century U.S. Natural Resource PolicyMargot Lurie, University of Chicago.

2. Economics Downstream of Law: Institutionalists and the Progressive/New Deal Regulatory StateElizabeth Popp Berman, University of Michigan.

3. The Political Limits of “Parity”: Agricultural Economists and the New Deal StateIbanca Anand, Johns Hopkins University.

4. Awkward Democratic Devices: Rexford Tugwell’s New Deal and the Origins of Planning TheoryIsaac Martin, University of California, San Diego.

5. Experts, Politics, and the Making of New Deal Tax PolicyAjay Mehrotra, American Bar Foundation and Northwestern University.

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