Government and the American Economy: A New HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 15.09.2008 - 560 Seiten 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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... African Americans , and coercion by govern- ments and others , which often effectively retarded their progress . Many models of discrimination in use at the time were based on a distaste for working with blacks . Bob suggested that the ...
... African-American Studies at Boston University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Robert A. McGuire is professor of economics at the University of Akron. Douglass C. North is the Bartlett Burnap Senior ...
... African Americans, Guglielmo and Troesken's story of control and competition in the oil market, and Fishback's account of the New Deal. These are stories in which the beliefs of the players shaped the policies they pursued, and this ...
... African Americans, and various economic issues eventually culminated in the Civil War. In chapter 7 Jeffrey Rogers Hummel traces these developments as well as the impact of the war on the American economy, and the way the outcome of the ...
... American success story. Robert A. Margo traces the governments' role in policy toward African Americans in chapter 8, encompassing the promotion and protection of slavery, the development of Jim Crow laws and seg- regated schools in the ...
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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 |