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We Need a New Marshall Plan to Fight the Coronavirus

WE DID IT BEFORE

What makes the post-WWII Marshall Plan relevant is the example it provides of how massive government intervention can end a crisis that shows no signs of self-resolving.

Nicolaus Mills
Nicolaus Mills
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Nicolaus Mills

Nicolaus Mills

nmills@sarahlawrence.edu

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