1891 - 1979
Rexford Tugwell American Economist
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| First Name |
Rexford
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| Last Name |
Tugwell
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| Birthday |
10th July, 1891
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| Birthplace |
Sinclairville, New York
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| Died |
21st July, 1979
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| Place of Death |
Santa Barbara, California, U.S.
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| Zodiac Sign |
Cancer
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Economist
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Rexford Guy Tugwell (July 10, 1891 – July 21, 1979) was an
economist who became part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's first "Brain Trust", a group of Columbia University academics who helped develop policy recommendations leading up to Roosevelt's New Deal. Tugwell served in FDR's administration until he was forced out in 1936.
He was a specialist on planning and believed the government should have large-scale plans to move the economy out of the Great Depression because private businesses were too frozen in place to do the job. He helped design the New Deal farm program and the Resettlement Administration that moved subsistence farmers into small rented farms under close supervision. His ideas on suburban planning resulted in the construction of Greenbelt, Maryland, with low-cost rents for relief families.
He was denounced by conservatives for advocating state-directed economic planning to overcome the Great Depression.
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