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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... expenditures to rise dramatically from 1 percent of GDP in peacetime before 1940 to between 4 and 8 percent of GDP in peacetime since 1950. Possibly more important to the expansion of government has been the increasing demand for ...
... Expenditures in the United States . " In Budgets and Bureaucrats : The Sources of Gov- ernment Growth , ed . Thomas E. Borcherding , 45–70 . Durham , NC : Duke University Press Buchanan , James , Robert Tollison , and Gordon Tullock ...
... Expenditures : A Historical Perspective . " American Economic Review 72 ( May ) : 336–40 . North , Douglass C. , John Joseph Wallis , and Barry Weingast . 2005. “ A Frame- work for Understanding Recorded Human History . " Paper ...
... expenditures. The functions performed by the colonial governments did not differ dramatically from those later ... expenditure policies remained within colonial discretion. As part of the empire's currency union, the mainland faced ...
... expenditures were generally small . And although the local governments in the colonies were responsible for bridges , fences , roads , and schooling , these were often financed by tolls and fees , by the granting of land or of monopoly ...
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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 |