Robert M. Whaples (born 1961 in Augsburg, West Germany) is a professor of economics at Wake Forest University.
His Ph.D. thesis, "The Shortening of the American Work Week: An Economic and Historical Analysis", won the Allan Nevins Prize from the Economic History Association.
He moved to Wake Forest University in 1991, and was chair of the economics department there from 2006 to 2013.
[4] In 1995, he conducted a survey of economists regarding the effects of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies on the Great Depression, and found that they were almost evenly split regarding whether his policies "served to lengthen and deepen" the Great Depression.
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