American Economic Policy from the Revolution to the New DealWilliam Letwin Transaction Publishers - 406 σελίδες The documents in this volume reflect the great debates that have shaped this country's economic life. Covering a wide variety of problems, they show how each was treated at a moment when it was politically urgent. Since they were efforts at persuasion, usually addressed to a wide audience, they are coherent and self-contained and avoid technical jargon. They therefore present clear and vivid evidence of what men have desired and hoped to achieve, and explain not only much that is critical about how Americans lived in the past but much also about the inheritance of the present. From the overwhelming mass of available documents, a representative group has been chosen here. Among the twenty-nine included are: Hamilton's Report on Manufactures, which helped set the American attitude on economic growth; Andrew Jackson's veto message on the bill to renew the charter of the Bank of the United States; the first annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which put the railroads under federal regulation; William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech, which helped him win the Democratic nomination in 1896; the conclusions of the Pujo Committee's report on the money market, which were instrumental in setting up the Federal Reserve System; and key documents on the National Recovery Administration, one of Franklin D. Roosevelt's major moves in his fight against the depression. In his introductory essay, the editor summarizes the forces and movements that helped to make American economic policy "exceedingly confused and therefore very annoying to historians and economists," But, he insists, this very confusion reduced "the extremism and disorder potentially so great in the United States . . . to remarkable moderation." William Letwin is professor emeritus at the London School of Economics. He has published many articles and reviews in learned and popular journals. He took his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and did graduate work there and at the London School of Economics. After receiving the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago, he stayed on at the university as Research Associate in the Law School and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economics. |
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... mean to assert that the central banking problem was the single most serious question of economic policy during the 1830s, or that this episode was the most important moment in the history of central bank policy in the United States. My ...
... means and ends. And once one turns from the ready-made pattern to the details, it becomes evident that the formula of a long reign of laissez-faire has persisted only because historians have preferred to make neat maps that leave out ...
... mean that the antipathy to government spending prevailed after all. The complete record of a government's economic activity is not to be found in its budget— certainly not, especially during the first decades of the nineteenth century ...
... means by which it may be effected, as introductory to a specification of the objects, which, in the present state of things, appear the most fit to be encouraged, and of the particular measures which it may be advisable to adopt, in ...
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B INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS | 53 |
CORPORATION LAW | 85 |
CENTRAL BANKING | 112 |
E REGULATION OF RAILROADS | 157 |
F ANTITRUST POLICY | 199 |
G MONETARY POLICY | 247 |
H CONSERVATION | 273 |
INCOME TAXATION | 292 |
J IMMIGRATION POLICY | 323 |
1923 | 332 |
K AGRICULTURAL PRICE SUPPORTS | 342 |
THE NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION | 362 |
REGULATION OF THE FINANCIAL MARKET | 395 |
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