Government and the American Economy: A New HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. 9. 2008. - 560 страница 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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... century? Was it an evolutionary process or one marked by responses to crises?” I wrote what I thought to be a brilliant defense of the growth of govern- ment as an evolutionary process. Of course, Bob was in the early stages of writing ...
... century and why George W. Bush increased steel tariffs in 2002. To some extent the U.S. system is saved from special- interest legislation run amok by countervailing special - interest groups . In many cases the benefits sought by one ...
... century heyday of the political bosses. In the late 1800s, after the public learned about corruption in New York City and other cities, reformers believed that the solution was to populate the government with “better” people. By 1900 ...
... century the government has widened its scope by setting regulatory limits and expanding the range of admin- istrative bodies, adding work for the courts that prescribe and enforce these limits. A comparison of the situation in 1890 with ...
... centuries the nat- ural protection of the oceans kept the costs of maintaining national se- curity relatively low. The ... century, but the temporary payments to the poor typically made up about 40 percent of the average wage. Because ...
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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 |