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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... of the individual were protected against the demands of the major- ity. The initial relatively broad distribution of property ownership and income gave the people a stake in protecting these freedoms. 2 PRICE FISHBACK.
... major feature of economic freedoms in the United States is the contract clause in article I, section 10 of the Constitution: “No state shall pass any ... law impairing the obligation of contracts.” This clause allows people to make ...
... major wars. Sacrifices made during wars extend well beyond government ex- penditures, the loss of lives, and the destruction of military equipment. The nation's involvement in wars has led to limits on access to normal consumer goods ...
... major crises.30 Since the founding of the country, national security has been a touch- stone of American government. The rise in national defense costs has been dramatic. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the nat- ural ...
... major crisis, the scale and scope of government ratcheted upward. During World War I, in the face of a major military crisis, the federal government experimented with a wide variety of controls of economic activity and off-budget ...
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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 |