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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... American economy : a new history / Price Fishback . . . [ et al . ] . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references ... American National Standard for Infor- mation Sciences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials , ANSI Z39 ...
... economics, politics, history, and the broader social sciences. Monthly lunches with ... American Economic Association meetings and interview- ing with faculty ... Economy, 1865–1914. In that thin volume he deviated from the focus of most ...
... economy . He showed how standard government statistics misrepresented the true extent of consumption of normal goods during the war and documented the costs to the economic welfare of the American people of fighting the war ...
... American economy. Although the inspira- tion was Robert Higgs's pioneering exploration of this subject, the pres- ent work provides both a longitudinal view of the topic and an in-depth exploration of the role of government in the many ...
... economy? And how have they, at the same time, shaped the individual parts of the economy? The creation of an ongoing ... American economic history. The result is not simply a story of attempts to monopolize mar- kets but, rather, a far ...
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2 Government in Colonial America | 37 |
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 |
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Government and the American Economy: A New History Price V. Fishback Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |