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- adjective economics Of or relating to the politics or economics of Herbert Hoover.
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Examples
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I will not address all the arguments made in defense of a "Hooverian" approach to economics.
L. Randall Wray: Budgetary Impasse: Is There an Alternative to Hoovernomics? L. Randall Wray 2011
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I will not address all the arguments made in defense of a "Hooverian" approach to economics.
L. Randall Wray: Budgetary Impasse: Is There an Alternative to Hoovernomics? L. Randall Wray 2011
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When the City implored the federal government to help them out, Ford's response was reminiscent of the neo-Hooverian cold shoulder being turned by culture warriors Richard Shelby and Bob Corker toward Detroit.
Jane Hamsher: Why Detroit -- Like New York -- Shouldn't Be Allowed To Go Bankrupt 2009
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His whole economic reform platform is a mish mosh of Hooverian voluntarism.
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Of course, Mr. Stone, Mr. Weiser and their array of gifted collaborators had no way of knowing before they finished work on their production that the darkest days of the Bush presidency would soon dawn with what now seems like a Herbert Hooverian plunge into the abyss of a worldwide economic collapse.
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And it's lucky for George Bush that they are, because his handling of our plunging economy is Hooverian in both its substance and inadequacy.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Harold Meyerson: Bush's Final Fiasco 2008
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And it\'s lucky for George Bush that they are, because his handling of our plunging economy is Hooverian in both its substance and inadequacy. '
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Harold Meyerson: Bush's Final Fiasco 2008
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Of course, Mr. Stone, Mr. Weiser and their array of gifted collaborators had no way of knowing before they finished work on their production that the darkest days of the Bush presidency would soon dawn with what now seems like a Herbert Hooverian plunge into the abyss of a worldwide economic collapse.
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And you thought Bush was a job-destroyer of Hooverian proportions.
~ Angry Bear 2004
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However, in attempting to redress the historical balance in favor of the New Deal as a radical departure from the Hooverian past, Schlesinger tips the scale too heavily in Roosevelt's behalf.
Who's Progressive? Muraskin, Bennett 1979
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