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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... 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 until 1994, long after the vast majority of rural farms had access ...
... established in the leg- islature. Supreme Court justices are given lifetime tenure, so that the at- titudes of Justices John Marshall, Felix Frankfurter, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, and Sandra Day O'Connor, among many others, have ...
... established by the Equal Employ- ment Opportunity Commission, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Na- tional Labor ... establish the deed and would have to meet local building code and state boiler inspection rules. If the plant damaged ...
... establishing pensions for widows with children and expanded the number of workplace accident victims receiving ... established, and a series of joint state-national programs was created to provide un- employment insurance and to ...
... established a framework for compensating people after the fact when products or employment led to injury. The common ... establish regulations that prescribed rules for production and work and created administrative bodies to en- force ...
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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 |