Discuss the effect of the Great Depression on the view that poverty was a problem of personal irresponsibility and what result of this, in terms of De Swanns’s conditions for collective action

What will be an ideal response?


ANS: Responses must mention or apply Swann’s three conditions of external effects, unpredictability, and insufficiency of personal remedies, and establishment of the Social Security Act as the collective response.

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