... even distribution of national wealth. The New Deal represented the culmination of a long-range trend towards the abandonment of the laissez-faire attitude. Roosevelt wanted a government headed more towards "Keynesian" economics. John Maynard Keynes believed that it is the governments responsibility to interfere in the free market, and they should participate. If America had this kind of economic system, maybe there ... to help the workers to their own advantage. Although there were some problems in the New Deal, I think that it was very successful. When Roosevelt took the presidential o...

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