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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... War , Competition and Coercion ( 1977 ) , described the interplay of market competition , which often served to ... World War II . In the 1980s Bob became interested in the growth of government , in particular the federal government ...
... World War II . In " War- time Prosperity ? A Reassessment of the U.S. Economy in the 1940s , ” published in the Journal of Economic History , he powerfully argued that World War II should be considered an extension of the Great De ...
... World War I and through the beginning of World War II. From the 1940s to the pres- ent, the United States has played a larger and more important rule on the world stage. The development of new military technologies at home and abroad ...
... World War II, particularly in product safety cases, have increasingly disallowed the use of contractual language in purchase agreements as a bar against compensation of the injured.33 The focus of many of these regulations is to find ...
... World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II, attitudes toward government shifted such that by 1950 the majority of elites and the general public easily turned to government when they saw a problem they thought should be solved ...
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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 |
INDEX | 595 |
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Government and the American Economy: A New History Price V. Fishback Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |