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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... workers , the importance of health to the productivity of American workers , and the factors that influenced their health , to name a few . Bob's masterpiece about the experience of black workers in the South after the Civil War ...
... workers and employers to end employment contracts “at will” prevented people from contracting to become slaves. Governments have retained the right to use their po- lice powers to establish regulations in “the public interest” that ...
... workers pay higher taxes. In other cases the connections are far looser. Social 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 ...
... worker of his wages. If something bad happened, the worker would have the ultimate option of taking the firm to court. In some states there were guidelines for reporting some basic information about the firm and its workers. Today such ...
... worker or the employer pays into funds from which the benefits are distributed. The search for protection has moved beyond ... workers and consumers by helping solve several forms of market failure: high information and transaction costs ...
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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 |