“…Recovery After the Great Depression (GDP per capita 1932-33=100) The early intellectual affinity between some of Roosevelt's New Deal and Mussolini's Fascism is well known, although sometimes conveniently forgotten (see Vaudagna, 1977;Whitman, 1991;White, 2012 andMigone, 2015). Rexford Tugwell, one of the members of FDR's "brain trust", visited Italy at the end of 1934 and concluded that the US had to emulate many of Mussolini's policies (Migone, 2015, 304).…”