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Author : John William Malsberger,James N. Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015082718845
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Seymour E. Harris
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 158798136X
Analysis of economic history from about 1800 to the late 1950s.
Author : Jonathan R. T. Hughes,Louis P. Cain
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : United States
ISBN : NWU:35556040182875
America's present economy, understood through its past. Rich in both quantitative techniques and economic theory, American Economic History demonstrates how an understanding of our past can illuminate economic issues that face society today and in the future. In simple, elegant language, this text walks readers through four centuries of political, social, and economic history, focusing on laws and institutions and emphasizing current economic topics. The eighth edition has been updated and revised, and includes expanded discussions on population, health, and labor; education; the automobile industry; income and taxes; social security; unemployment; regulation and the financial industry; and the history of economic recessions.
Author : Robert William Fogel,Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039929786
Author : Matthias Blum,Christopher L. Colvin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319965680
Without economic history, economics runs the risk of being too abstract or parochial, of failing to notice precedents, trends and cycles, of overlooking the long-run and thus misunderstanding ‘how we got here’. Recent financial and economic crises illustrate spectacularly how the economics profession has not learnt from its past. This important and unique book addresses this problem by demonstrating the power of historical thinking in economic research. Concise chapters guide economics lecturers and their students through the field of economic history, demonstrating the use of historical thinking in economic research, and advising them on how they can actively engage with economic history in their teaching and learning. Blum and Colvin bring together important voices in the field to show readers how they can use their existing economics training to explore different facets of economic history. Each chapter introduces a question or topic, historical context or research method and explores how they can be used in economics scholarship and pedagogy. In a century characterised to date by economic uncertainty, bubbles and crashes, An Economist’s Guide to Economic History is essential reading. For further information visit http://www.blumandcolvin.org
Author : Jonathan Levy
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812985184
A leading economic historian traces the evolution of American capitalism from the colonial era to the present—and argues that we’ve reached a turning point that will define the era ahead. “A monumental achievement, sure to become a classic.”—Zachary D. Carter, author of The Price of Peace In this ambitious single-volume history of the United States, economic historian Jonathan Levy reveals how capitalism in America has evolved through four distinct ages and how the country’s economic evolution is inseparable from the nature of American life itself. The Age of Commerce spans the colonial era through the outbreak of the Civil War, and the Age of Capital traces the lasting impact of the industrial revolution. The volatility of the Age of Capital ultimately led to the Great Depression, which sparked the Age of Control, during which the government took on a more active role in the economy, and finally, in the Age of Chaos, deregulation and the growth of the finance industry created a booming economy for some but also striking inequalities and a lack of oversight that led directly to the crash of 2008. In Ages of American Capitalism, Levy proves that capitalism in the United States has never been just one thing. Instead, it has morphed through the country’s history—and it’s likely changing again right now. “A stunning accomplishment . . . an indispensable guide to understanding American history—and what’s happening in today’s economy.”—Christian Science Monitor “The best one-volume history of American capitalism.”—Sven Beckert, author of Empire of Cotton
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:39015008637848
Author : Robert Whaples,Dianne C. Betts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1995-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521466482
This book is a student reader of the key topics in American economic history.
Author : Edited by Louis P. Cain,Edited by Price V. Fishback,Edited by Paul W. Rhode
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190937072
American economic history describes the transition of a handful of struggling settlements on the Atlantic seaboard into the nation with the most successful economy in the world today. As the economy has developed, so have the methods used by economic historians to analyze the process. Interest in economic history has sharply increased in recent years among the public, policy-makers, and in the academy. The current economic turmoil, calling forth comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s, is in part responsible for the surge in interest among the public and in policy circles. It has also stimulated greater scholarly research into past financial crises, the multiplier effects of fiscal and monetary policy, the dynamics of the housing market, and international economic cooperation and conflict. Other pressing policy issues--including the impending retirement of the Baby-Boom generation, the ongoing expansion of the healthcare sector, and the environmental challenges imposed by global climate change--have further increased demand for the long-run perspective given by economic history. Confronting this need, The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History affords access to the latest research on the crucial events, themes, and legacies of America's economic history--from colonial America, to the Civil War,up to present day. More than fifty contributors address topics as wide-ranging as immigration, agriculture, and urbanization. Over its two volumes, this handbook gives readers not only a comprhensive look at where the field of American economic history currently stands but where it is headed in the years to come.
Author : Samuel Rosenberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781403990266
Author : Robert J. Gordon
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 785 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400888955
How America's high standard of living came to be and why future growth is under threat In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, motor vehicles, air travel, and television transformed households and workplaces. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end? Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth challenges the view that economic growth will continue unabated, and demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated. Gordon contends that the nation's productivity growth will be further held back by the headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government, and that we must find new solutions. A critical voice in the most pressing debates of our time, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.
Author : Bhu Srinivasan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780399563805
An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalism NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next Big Things -- the inventions, techniques, and industries that drove American history forward: from the telegraph, the railroad, guns, radio, and banking to flight, suburbia, and sneakers, culminating with the Internet and mobile technology at the turn of the twenty-first century. The result is a thrilling alternative history of modern America that reframes events, trends, and people we thought we knew through the prism of the value that, for better or for worse, this nation holds dearest: capitalism. In a winning, accessible style, Bhu Srinivasan boldly takes on four centuries of American enterprise, revealing the unexpected connections that link them. We learn how Andrew Carnegie's early job as a telegraph messenger boy paved the way for his leadership of the steel empire that would make him one of the nation's richest men; how the gunmaker Remington reinvented itself in the postwar years to sell typewriters; how the inner workings of the Mafia mirrored the trend of consolidation and regulation in more traditional business; and how a 1950s infrastructure bill triggered a series of events that produced one of America's most enduring brands: KFC. Reliving the heady early days of Silicon Valley, we are reminded that the start-up is an idea as old as America itself. Entertaining, eye-opening, and sweeping in its reach, Americana is an exhilarating new work of narrative history.
Author : Lance Edwin Davis,Jonathan R. T. Hughes,Duncan M. McDougall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258296675
Edited By Lloyd G. Reynolds. The Irwin Series In Economics.
Author : Michael Lind
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062097729
"[An] ambitious economic history of the united States...rich with details." ?—David Leonhardt, New York Times Book Review How did a weak collection of former British colonies become an industrial, financial, and military colossus? From the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries, the American economy has been transformed by wave after wave of emerging technology: the steam engine, electricity, the internal combustion engine, computer technology. Yet technology-driven change leads to growing misalignment between an innovative economy and anachronistic legal and political structures until the gap is closed by the modernization of America's institutions—often amid upheavals such as the Civil War and Reconstruction and the Great Depression and World War II. When the U.S. economy has flourished, government and business, labor and universities, have worked together in a never-ending project of economic nation building. As the United States struggles to emerge from the Great Recession, Michael Lind clearly demonstrates that Americans, since the earliest days of the republic, have reinvented the American economy - and have the power to do so again.
Author : E. Cardenas,J. Ocampo,R. Thorp
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230595682
In the 1990s, 'protection', 'import substitution' and 'intervention' have become dirty words, part of the 'leyenda negra' of Latin America development in the postwar period. This book attempts a fresh look at the controversial years between the end of the Second World War and the point when, at varying dates in different countries, a discontinuity occurs in which the postwar 'style of development' ceased to play a central role in the economic evolution of the region. The analysis is based on seven case studies covering eleven countries.
