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The New Deal in Old Rome
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Author: H. J. Haskell
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Category: Booms and Busts, U.S. History, World History
What a fantastic way to learn ancient history: via the parallels with modern times.  This book was a smash hit when it first came out in 1939, and yet it went out of print, and hasn’t been in print in half a century. H.J. Haskell was a journalist with a background in ancient history, and here he does what everyone has wanted done. He details the
Big Business in Politics
Mises Daily
Author: H. J. Haskell
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Category: Interventionism, Political Theory, Taxes and Spending, World History
[Chapter 7, The New Deal in Old Rome ] The political machine is familiar to Americans. While it may lead to gross abuses, experience shows that some sort of behind-the-scenes organization may be useful to the functioning of democratic institutions. Such an organization may hold diverse elements of the population together and provide continuity of
Boom and Depression in Ancient Rome
Mises Daily
Author: H. J. Haskell
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Category: Booms and Busts, World History
[ The New Deal in Rome (1939; 2009)]   The great achievement of the government that Augustus organized was the Roman peace. Under him and his successors for nearly 400 years the empire kept at bay the hordes that threatened to destroy Western civilization. During this time the Greco-Roman culture became so firmly established and so widespread that