When Government Helped: Learning from the Successes and Failures of the New DealWhen Government Helped systematically evaluates some parallels between The Great Depression and the 2007 2008 global economic meltdown, not only in terms of their economic causes and consequences, but also in terms of their political and cultural contexts and the environmental crises that afflict both periods. The positive and negative lessons for contemporary policy making are evaluated by a multidisciplinary team of authors across a range of policy