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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... received the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Eco- nomic Science in 1993. E. C. Pasour Jr. is a research fellow at the Independent Institute and professor emeritus of agricultural and resource economics at North Carolina State University ...
... receiving disability pensions. During the early 1900s states began establishing pensions for widows with children and expanded the number of workplace accident victims receiving compensation by replacing the old common-law fault system ...
... received the market values of their slaves at 1860 prices and each of the slaves would have received a significant grant of land and tools and a significant amount of back wages (Goldin and Lewis 1975). 6. For discussions of the ...
... receiving large number of immigrants and sustaining an excep- tionally high rate of natural population increase . This reflected , in part , the relatively stable monetary situation ; there were no prolonged periods of price inflation ...
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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 |
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