Government and the American Economy: A New HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. sep. 2008 - 560 sider 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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... find resources that are truly common property that everybody can use unilaterally. Usually there is some type of management process wherein groups within the society restrict resource use, while the soci- ety as a whole protects the ...
... find apartments or face additional nonmonetary costs of searching for apartments. The Political Economy of U.S. Governments In his Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln averred that the U.S. government is “of the people, for the people ...
... for this tariff whereas members of the general public might find their per- sonal costs of organizing to stop the policy higher than their dollar loss . This might help explain why protectionist steel tariffs were enacted 14 PRICE FISHBACK.
... find ways to block the elimination of a policy or seek ways to expand their authority and remain in office. For example, the Rural Electrification Administration, established to lend funds to cooperatives in order to bring electricity ...
... find ways to prevent bad outcomes in advance of events by regulating the process or the exchange, while continuing to compensate people after a bad event occurs. There have been numerous pressures for these changes. As discussed above ...
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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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