Price Fishback Featured on MarketPlace Podcast

Price Fishback, Regents Professor and APS Professor of Economics, was featured in a recent MarketPlace series called Breaking Ground, on how president Roosevelt’s New Deal transformed the economy, and whether or not President Biden could do the same. 

The first episode in the series talks about the New Deal as a before and after moment for the U.S. economy. 

“The New Deal is kind of the biggest peacetime growth of the government in American history, says Fishback. 

Fishback joined the Eller College of Management as associate professor in 1990 after teaching at the University of Georgia. He was appointed the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics in 2010. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Washington in 1983. His research area of interest is the political economy of Roosevelt’s New Deal during the 1930s, examining both the determinants of New Deal spending and loans and their impact on local economies throughout the U.S. He also works on state labor legislation during the Progressive Era, the American Economy during World War II and changes in agriculture in response to climate, government policy and technology. Fishback is also a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic History at Australian National University, a CAGE Fellow at Warwick University, a program scholar for the Hoover Program on Regulation and the Rule of Law, a fellow at the TIAA-CREF Institute and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.