© 2025 KPCW

KPCW
Spencer F. Eccles Broadcast Center
PO Box 1372 | 460 Swede Alley
Park City | UT | 84060
Office: (435) 649-9004 | Studio: (435) 655-8255

Music & Artist Inquiries: music@kpcw.org
News Tips & Press Releases: news@kpcw.org
Volunteer Opportunities
General Inquiries: info@kpcw.org
Listen Like a Local Park City & Heber City Summit & Wasatch counties, Utah
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

Did the New Deal really help the US through the Great Depression?

A photo of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Franklin D. Roosevelt

The programs of the New Deal are often credited with helping the nation recover from the bleak economic circumstances of the Great Depression.

Author George Selgin discusses many of those programs from deposit insurance to the National Industrial Recovery Act in his new book "False Dawn: The New Deal and the Promise of Recovery."

He also talks about the lessons policy makers should draw in dealing with future downturns from the successes and failures of the New Deal experiments.

Stay Connected
Mountain Money co-host, Local News Hour fill-in host and former board chair.