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He was a leading banker and financier in the 1910s and 1920s, making (and losing) a fortune of over $ 250 million. By 1931 he had nearly bankrupted his employer,
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in a series of economics books that were highly influential in the United States in the 1920s. His influential books, written with Foster, were
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From New Era to New Deal: Herbert Hoover, the Economists, and American Economic Policy, 1921–1933
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Gleason, Alan H. (1959). "Foster and Catchings: A Reappraisal".
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A superb phrase maker and popularizer, he had a major impact on
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tradition, advocating similar issues to Keynes such as the
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references
inline citations
improve
introducing
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economist
Harvard
William Trufant Foster
Herbert Hoover
Marriner Eccles
Goldman Sachs
Harrison Williams
Warner Brothers
Muzak Holdings
Studebaker
Chrysler
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Keynesian
underconsumptionist
paradox of thrift
economic interventionism
The General Theory
"Waddill Catchings, Economist And Investment Banker, Dead"
New York Times
ISBN
0-521-30526-8
Dorfman, Joseph
Journal of Political Economy
doi
10.1086/258158

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