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Author : Leonard C. Schlup
Publisher : Midwest Press Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780981681900
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)
Download or read book American Economic Developments in the Gilded Age written by Leonard C. Schlup and published by Midwest Press Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Gilded Age written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey G. Williamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521088510
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Late Nineteenth-Century American Development written by Jeffrey G. Williamson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An economist's attempt to interpret a critical period of US history, from Civil War to World War I.
Author : Jefferson Cowie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069117573X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Great Exception written by Jefferson Cowie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and culture Where does the New Deal fit in the big picture of American history? What does it mean for us today? What happened to the economic equality it once engendered? In The Great Exception, Jefferson Cowie provides new answers to these important questions. In the period between the Great Depression and the 1970s, he argues, the United States government achieved a unique level of equality, using its considerable resources on behalf of working Americans in ways that it had not before and has not since. If there is to be a comparable battle for collective economic rights today, Cowie argues, it needs to build on an understanding of the unique political foundation for the New Deal. Anyone who wants to come to terms with the politics of inequality in the United States will need to read The Great Exception.
Author : Yuen Yuen Ang
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108802389
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book China's Gilded Age written by Yuen Yuen Ang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has China grown so fast for so long despite vast corruption? In China's Gilded Age, Yuen Yuen Ang maintains that all corruption is harmful, but not all types of corruption hurt growth. Ang unbundles corruption into four varieties: petty theft, grand theft, speed money, and access money. While the first three types impede growth, access money - elite exchanges of power and profit - cuts both ways: it stimulates investment and growth but produces serious risks for the economy and political system. Since market opening, corruption in China has evolved toward access money. Using a range of data sources, the author explains the evolution of Chinese corruption, how it differs from the West and other developing countries, and how Xi's anti-corruption campaign could affect growth and governance. In this formidable yet accessible book, Ang challenges one-dimensional measures of corruption. By unbundling the problem and adopting a comparative-historical lens, she reveals that the rise of capitalism was not accompanied by the eradication of corruption, but rather by its evolution from thuggery and theft to access money. In doing so, she changes the way we think about corruption and capitalism, not only in China but around the world.
Author : Edward O'Donnell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539266
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality written by Edward O'Donnell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's remarkable explosion of industrial output and national wealth at the end of the nineteenth century was matched by a troubling rise in poverty and worker unrest. As politicians and intellectuals fought over the causes of this crisis, Henry George (1839–1897) published a radical critique of laissez-faire capitalism and its threat to the nation's republican traditions. Progress and Poverty (1879), which became a surprise best-seller, offered a provocative solution for preserving these traditions while preventing the amassing of wealth in the hands of the few: a single tax on land values. George's writings and years of social activism almost won him the mayor's seat in New York City in 1886. Though he lost the election, his ideas proved instrumental to shaping a popular progressivism that remains essential to tackling inequality today. Edward T. O'Donnell's exploration of George's life and times merges labor, ethnic, intellectual, and political history to illuminate the early militant labor movement in New York during the Gilded Age. He locates in George's rise to prominence the beginning of a larger effort by American workers to regain control of the workplace and obtain economic security and opportunity. The Gilded Age was the first but by no means the last era in which Americans confronted the mixed outcomes of modern capitalism. George's accessible, forward-thinking ideas on democracy, equality, and freedom have tremendous value for contemporary debates over the future of unions, corporate power, Wall Street recklessness, government regulation, and political polarization.
Author : Ronald W. Coan
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178536636X
Total Pages : 1298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book A History of American State and Local Economic Development written by Ronald W. Coan and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of American State and Local Economic Development relates the history of American local and state economic development from 1790 to 2000. This multi-variable, multi-disciplinary history employs a bottom-up policy-making systems approach while exploring the three eras of economic development.
Author : Christopher McKnight Nichols
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119775701
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era written by Christopher McKnight Nichols and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-06-15 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to the Gilded Age and Progressive Era presents a collection of new historiographic essays covering the years between 1877 and 1920, a period which saw the U.S. emerge from the ashes of Reconstruction to become a world power. The single, definitive resource for the latest state of knowledge relating to the history and historiography of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Features contributions by leading scholars in a wide range of relevant specialties Coverage of the period includes geographic, social, cultural, economic, political, diplomatic, ethnic, racial, gendered, religious, global, and ecological themes and approaches In today’s era, often referred to as a “second Gilded Age,” this book offers relevant historical analysis of the factors that helped create contemporary society Fills an important chronological gap in period-based American history collections
Author : Richard Franklin Bensel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139936476
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877–1900 written by Richard Franklin Bensel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-06 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, the United States underwent an extremely rapid industrial expansion that moved the nation into the front ranks of the world economy. At the same time, the nation maintained democratic institutions as the primary means of allocating political offices and power. The combination of robust democratic institutions and rapid industrialization is rare and this book explains how development and democracy coexisted in the United States during industrialization. Most literature focuses on either electoral politics or purely economic analyses of industrialization. This book synthesizes politics and economics by stressing the Republican party's role as a developmental agent in national politics, the primacy of the three great developmental policies (the gold standard, the protective tariff, and the national market) in state and local politics, and the impact of uneven regional development on the construction of national political coalitions in Congress and presidential elections.
Author : Eli Cook
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674982541
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book The Pricing of Progress written by Eli Cook and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Americans come to quantify their society’s progress and well-being in units of money? In today’s GDP-run world, prices are the standard measure of not only our goods and commodities but our environment, our communities, our nation, even our self-worth. The Pricing of Progress traces the long history of how and why we moderns adopted the monetizing values and valuations of capitalism as an indicator of human prosperity while losing sight of earlier social and moral metrics that did not put a price on everyday life. Eli Cook roots the rise of economic indicators in the emergence of modern capitalism and the contested history of English enclosure, Caribbean slavery, American industrialization, economic thought, and corporate power. He explores how the maximization of market production became the chief objective of American economic and social policy. We see how distinctly capitalist quantification techniques used to manage or invest in railroad corporations, textile factories, real estate holdings, or cotton plantations escaped the confines of the business world and seeped into every nook and cranny of society. As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities. Today as in the nineteenth century, political struggles rage over who gets to determine the statistical yardsticks used to gauge the “health” of our economy and nation. The Pricing of Progress helps us grasp the limits and dangers of entrusting economic indicators to measure social welfare and moral goals.
Author : André A. Hofman
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Economic Development of Latin America in the Twentieth Century written by André A. Hofman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hofman, a researcher with the Chile-based Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, uses growth accounting methods and previously unavailable long-term series data to assess the economic performance of the region during the century from a comparative and historical perspective. In particular he compares Latin American economies to those of advanced capitalist economies, to newly industrialized economies, and to Spain and Portugal because of the historical ties. He looks at the reasons for the poor or negative growth during the 1980s and the apparent recovery in the 1990s and at such problems as debt, income inequality, high inflation, cyclical instability, and political and policy instability. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Rosanne Currarino
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090101
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Labor Question in America written by Rosanne Currarino and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age, Rosanne Currarino traces the struggle to define the nature of democratic life in an era of industrial strife. As Americans confronted the glaring disparity between democracy's promises of independence and prosperity and the grim realities of economic want and wage labor, they asked, "What should constitute full participation in American society? What standard of living should citizens expect and demand?" Currarino traces the diverse efforts to answer to these questions, from the fledgling trade union movement to contests over immigration, from economic theory to popular literature, from legal debates to social reform. The contradictory answers that emerged--one stressing economic participation in a consumer society, the other emphasizing property ownership and self-reliance--remain pressing today as contemporary scholars, journalists, and social critics grapple with the meaning of democracy in post-industrial America.
Author : Price V. Fishback
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226251292
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Government and the American Economy written by Price V. Fishback and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. America’s democratic experiment, the authors show, allowed individuals and interest groups to shape the structure and policies of government, which, in turn, have fostered economic success and innovation by emphasizing private property rights, the rule of law, and protections of individual freedom. In response to new demands for infrastructure, America’s federal structure hastened development by promoting the primacy of states, cities, and national governments. More recently, the economic reach of American government expanded dramatically as the populace accepted stronger limits on its economic freedoms in exchange for the increased security provided by regulation, an expanded welfare state, and a stronger national defense.
Author : Herman Edward Krooss
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book American Economic Development written by Herman Edward Krooss and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1974 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sean Dennis Cashman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780814714188
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (141 download)
Download or read book America in the Gilded Age written by Sean Dennis Cashman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the economic, industrial, social, and political development of the United States during the period from 1865 to 1901
Author : Douglass Cecil North
Publisher : New York : Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393003468
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860 written by Douglass Cecil North and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1966 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous charts and tables substantiate the author's analysis of the origins and manifestations of economic development of America before the Civil War
Author : Sidney Ratner
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Evolution Of Amern Economy written by Sidney Ratner and published by New York : Basic Books. This book was released on 1979 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
