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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... suffered robber barons gladly. The exponents of this view differ on the desirability of the outcome. One group holds that the enrichment of the few was the necessary and natural way to accomplish the welfare, albeit INTRODUCTION.
William Letwin. the necessary and natural way to accomplish the welfare, albeit unequal welfare, of all. Others maintain that the policy of negative government gave rise to inequities and abuses so disturbing that eventually, during the ...
... necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens— a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own ...
... necessary to advert carefully to the considerations which plead in favor of manufactures, and which appear to recommend the special and positive encouragement of them in certain cases, and under certain reasonable limitations. It ought ...
... necessary expenses incurred in the business, and to maintain the persons who are employed in it, but to afford, together with the ordinary profit on the stock or capital of the farmer, a net surplus or rent for the landlord or ...
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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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