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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... million, a transformation from a rural agricultural society to an urban manufacturing giant and then to a service economy (specializing in technological development), and a devastatingly destruc- tive civil war (to mention only a few of ...
... million for one million people in the steel industry . The average per capita gain in the steel industry would be $ 200 per per- son . Meanwhile , a loss of roughly $ 300 million spread among the 300 million members of the general ...
... million, local debt was approximately $25 million, and national debt was $5 million.36 The heyday of state internal improvements ended in the early 1840s, when eight states and the Territory of Florida defaulted on debts they Table 1.2 ...
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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 |