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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... Security in the Postwar Era 507 price fishback Appendix A. Key Indicators of Economic and Government Activity 557 john joseph wallis and price fishback Appendix B. The Articles of Confederation 571 Appendix C. The Constitution of the ...
... security for most of the populace in these countries limited people's incentives to work and save. This chill- ing effect on the economy was compounded by the dissipation of re- sources by excessive expenditures on military and self ...
... , and given the high costs of determining the pre- cise threat to national security , there is plenty of room for disagreement about what is necessary or optimal. Spending on national defense GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY 9.
... Security payments to the elderly are funded by payroll taxes paid by current workers and employers. The Social Security trust fund serves as an implicit guaran- tee that the federal government will collect enough taxes to fund the ...
... security. Insulating civil servants from the job loss associated with changes in the party in power and preventing them from participating in partisan politics would put impartial, disinterested, and skilled bureaucrats in place to ...
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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 |