Depression, war, and cold war [electronic resource] : studies in political economy / by Robert Higgs.
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, CA :
Independent Institute,
c2006.
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Depression, War, and Cold War : Studies in Political Economy |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- 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.