Government and the American Economy: A New HistoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 2008. 9. 15. - 560페이지 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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... political process , yet many do not exercise this right to its full- est extent . Each person represents such a small share of the electorate that it is extraordinarily unlikely that his or her vote will be decisive in an election ...
... political careers for their ideals when they make tough deci- sions. Others make discreet tradeoffs that benefit them while benefiting or imposing little cost on their constituents. Then there are the Boss Tweeds who blatantly used ...
... political processes wherein building a winning coalition required reformers to join forces with at least a subset of the affected sellers or employers. These coalitions were common when workplace safety regu- lations, child-labor laws ...
... Political Economy 96 ( April ) : 652–62 . Shleifer , Andrei , and Robert W. Vishny . 1998. The Grabbing Hand : Govern- ment Pathologies and Their Cures . Cambridge : Harvard University Press . Simmons , Randy , and Terry Anderson , eds ...
... political life of the colony. The earliest attempts by the British to establish settlements in North America, both unsuccessful, were proprietorships for Newfoundland (1583) and Roanoke Island, North Carolina (1585). Both involved small ...
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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 |