Government and the American Economy: A New HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 2008 M09 15 - 560 páginas The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America’s open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. |
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... Finance Corporation (RFC) and many of Roosevelt's New Deal programs had antecedents in the wartime programs. During World War II, New Deal philosophies and the World War I programs were put to use. The ability to win the war and reach ...
... Finance in the Long Run . ” Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 ( Winter ) : 61–82 . Wallis , John Joseph , and Douglass C. North . 1986. " Measuring the Transac- tion Sector in the American Economy , 1870–1970 . ” In Long - Term Fac ...
... finance Spanish purchases of consumer and military goods.3 The British and other Europeans were not, of course, the first to set- tle in the Americas; they had been preceded by the Native Americans. The locations of Indians at the time ...
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... finances, though they were subject to the overriding power of the British government. Certain aspects of economic ... financial and monetary policies such as those that would affect the rest of the world in the nineteenth and twentieth ...
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3 The Founding Era 1774 1791 | 56 |
4 Property Rights and Federal Land Policy | 89 |
Government and the Financial System since 1789 | 115 |
6 The National Era | 148 |
7 The Civil War and Reconstruction | 188 |
8 Government and the American Dilemma | 232 |
13 The New Deal | 384 |
14 The World Wars | 431 |
15 The Growth of US Farm Programs | 456 |
The Role of the South | 490 |
17 Seeking Security in the Postwar Era | 507 |
APPENDIX A Key Indicators of Economic and Government Activity | 557 |
APPENDIX B The Articles of Confederation | 571 |
APPENDIX C The Constitution of the United States | 581 |
9 The Gilded Age | 255 |
10 The Progressive Era | 288 |
Labor Education and Health | 323 |
From Patronage to Civil Service | 364 |
APPENDIX D The Bill of Rights | 593 |
INDEX | 595 |
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Government and the American Economy: A New History Price V. Fishback Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |