Depression, war, and Cold War : studies in political economy /

Main Author: Higgs, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York , NY : Oxford University Press, c2006.
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245 1 |a Depression, war, and Cold War :  |b studies in political economy /  |c Robert Higgs. 
260 1 |a New York , NY :  |b Oxford University Press,  |c c2006. 
300 1 |a xv, 221 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 1 |a 1. Regime uncertainty : why the Great Depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war -- 2. Private profit, public risk : institutional antecedents of the modern military procurement system in the rearmament program of 1940-1941 -- 3. Wartime prosperity? : a reassessment of the U.S. economy in the 1940s -- 4. Wartime socialization of investment : a reassessment of U.S. capital formation in the 1940s -- 5. From central planning to the market : the American transition, 1945-1947 -- 6. The Cold War economy : opportunity costs, ideology, and the politics of crisis -- 7. Hard coals make bad law : congressional parochialism versus national defense -- 8. Airplanes the Pentagon didn't want, but Congress did -- 9. Profits of U.S. defense contractors -- 10. Public opinion : a powerful predictor of U.S. defense spending. 
650 1 |a War  |x Economic aspects  |z United States. 
650 1 |a Depressions  |y 1929  |z United States 
651 1 |a United States  |x Economic conditions  |y 20th century 
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