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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... reduced by drafting millions of men into the armed forces , where many faced far worse conditions than they ever saw on the unemployment lines during the 1930s . We may have needed to fight the war to prevent Hitler from leaving the ...
... reduced although the physical aspects of the car had not changed. Moreover, the lack of ex- clusive rights to use would lead you to develop costly methods, such as more complex locks, to limit access to the car. You would certainly cut ...
... reduce their economic activity. Thus the rise in total revenue from the higher tax rate tends not to reach the level predicted by applying the new tax rate to the prior income level.18 There is a constant tension between the collection ...
... reduced or eliminated. In the late 1800s state governments began to establish regulations that prescribed rules for production and work and created administrative bodies to en- force the regulations. The federal government also began to ...
... reducing the colonies' incomes. The colonial governments adopted several different methods in their attempts to acquire labor. Land, whether granted directly to immigrants or to those who brought them over, was used to encourage immigra ...
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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 |