Oral history interview with Eliot Janeway, 1988

Biographical Note

Economist and Political Advisor

Scope and Contents

Education at Cornell College, London School of Economics; philosophical influences, especially economic (Communism, Keynes, Free Market Theory); experiences with the Communist Party; New Deal policies; pre-World War II recovery and recession; World War II production strategies and war economies, rationing; vice presidential nominations, Democratic Conventions in 1940, 1944, 1948, 1952; General Motors strike of 1946; Nuremberg Trials; post war boom and deregulation; career at Time, Newsweek, Fortune, New York Times; assassination of John F. Kennedy; market rigging; career of Lyndon B. Johnson; segregation and racial politics; underground economy; economic factors of the 1970s and 1980s; Reganomics; stock market and tax structures; insurance and banking companies; 1987 stock market crash; 1988 presidential campaign; colleague reminiscences, especially Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Joseph Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, William Douglas, and Henry Luce

Subjects

• Democratic Party (U.S.)
• Economists--Interviews.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Janeway, Eliot--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Economic conditions--20th century.
• United States--Politics and government--20th century.

Access Conditions

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