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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... slaves. Governments have retained the right to use their po- lice powers to establish regulations in “the public interest” that impose limits on behavior and contracts. The Supreme Court affirmed this right to regulate in Munn v ...
... slaves were freed, women obtained the right to vote, the voting age was lowered to eighteen, and large num- bers of foreign immigrants and their children were assimilated as citi- zens. Progress has moved in fits and starts with several ...
... slave owners, the slave owners would have 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 ...
... slaves from Africa, as well as the need to control those already there, or, at least, to work out mutually satisfactory arrangements for coexistence. For free immigrants it meant a relocation into an area quite different from that which ...
... slave labor brought from Africa. Sugar was produced for export to European markets on large plantations, often using one hundred to two hundred or more slaves. The rivalry between the British and the Dutch, in Eu- rope and in the New ...
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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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