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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... ment acted rather as a conquering nation would act. On occasion it signed treaties with the tribes for land. But constant pressure from new settlement often led to treaty violations and the replacement of existing, often implicit ...
... obvious form of redistribution takes places when the govern- ment collects taxes—on income, property, sales, foreign goods, corporate profits—and then assigns the revenues to other groups in the GOVERNMENT AND THE ECONOMY 11.
... ment services such as defense, the courts, and law and order can exceed the losses within the market taxed. As the U.S. government has ex- panded its role, however, there has been increasing disagreement across the population about the ...
... ment Opportunity Commission, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Na- tional Labor Relations Board, the Internal Revenue Service, workers' compensation and unemployment insurance administrators, the Immi- gration and Naturalization Service ...
... ment relative to other governments. After wars the collections of tax revenues continued at high levels to help pay down the wartime debt. Dramatic shifts in activity between the different levels of govern- ment occur in peacetime as ...
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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 |