Depression, war, and Cold War : studies in political economy /
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New York , NY :
Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.