| − | '''Rexford Guy Tugwell''' was the most influential ideologue of [[economic planning]] in the administration of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and the [[New Deal]]. | + | '''Rexford Guy Tugwell''' was the most influential ideologue of [[economic planning]] in the administration of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and the [[New Deal]]. He was a leading liberal proponent of the [[welfare state]], but held only minor jobs. |
| − | Tugwell came from a New York State farm, went from high school to the Wharton School of Business and then began as a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington and finally Columbia. [[Ray Moley]], who knew him at Columbia, drafted him for Roosevelt's [[Brain Trust]] in 1932 and when Roosevelt was inaugurated Tugwell was made Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under [[Henry Wallace]]. | + | Tugwell came from a New York State farm, went from high school to the Wharton School of Business and then began as a teacher at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Washington and finally Columbia. [[Raymond Moley]], who knew him at Columbia, drafted him for Roosevelt's [[Brain Trust]] in 1932 and when Roosevelt was inaugurated Tugwell was made Assistant Secretary of Agriculture under [[Henry Wallace]]. |