Government and the American Economy: A New HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 2008年9月15日 - 560 頁 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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... office. For example, the Rural Electrification Administration, established to lend funds to cooperatives in order to bring electricity for the first time to many rural areas in the 1930s, man- aged to find new projects and survived ...
... offices to line their pockets with cash. The American public has always struggled with the issue of gov- ernment ... office. When Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, he complained that he was inundated with requests for patronage ...
... office, Abraham Lincoln's view of a strong union was central to the return to a united country at the end of the Civil War, and Franklin Roosevelt's decisions in combating the Depression simul- taneously made him the most loved (and ...
... office, and the establishment of a basic monetary standard. The state and lo- cal levels maintained control over most other governmental functions, with the state distributing authority to local governments. The latter often focused on ...
... office, what laws could be passed, and who had control over financial issues. Those not able to vote could be the beneficiaries of government policy nonetheless and also were able to bring pressure on the governments to offset losses in ...
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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 |