Depression, war, and cold war : studies in political economy /

Main Author: Higgs, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oakland, CA : Oxford University Press, c2006
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245 1 0 |a Depression, war, and cold war :   |b studies in political economy /   |c by Robert Higgs 
260 |a Oakland, CA :   |b Oxford University Press,   |c c2006 
300 |a xv, 221 p. ;   |c 24 cm 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a Regime uncertainty : why the great depression lasted so long and why prosperity resumed after the war -- Private profit, public risk : institutional antecedents of the modern military procurement system in the rearmament program of 1940-1941 -- Wartime prosperity? a reassessment of the U.S. economy in the 1940s -- Wartime socialization of investment : a reassessment of U.S. capital formation in the 1940s -- From central planning to the market : the American transition, 1945-1947 -- The cold war economy : opportunity costs, ideology, and the politics of crisis -- Hard coals make bad law : congressional parochialism versus national defense -- Airplanes the Pentagon didn't want, but Congress did -- Profits of U.S. defense contractors -- Public opinion : a powerful predictor of U.S. defense spending 
650 0 |a War   |x Economic aspects   |z United States 
650 0 |a Depressions   |y 1929   |z United States 
651 0 |a United States   |x Economic conditions   |y 20th century 
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