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More : The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (316 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195348484
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: MoreDDC classification:
  • 338.973
LOC classification:
  • HC110.W4.C655 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Ambiguity of New Deal Economics -- 1 The Emergence of Economic Growthmanship -- 2 The Ascendancy of Growth Liberalism -- 3 Growth Liberalism Comes a Cropper, 1968 -- 4 Richard Nixon's Whig Growthmanship -- 5 The Retreat from Growth in the 1970s -- 6 The Reagan Revolution and Antistatist Growthmanship -- 7 Slow Drilling in Hard Boards -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Robert Collins' book explores the growth of America in terms of material prosperity. Collins interweaves economic history and cultural analysis onto his examination of postwar growth politics. The book contrasts the reasons for expansion and the way it has occurred in the past fifty years with the negative effects it has produced and the reactions against it. He also looks at the attitudes and behaviors that have developed as Americans have become a people of more.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Ambiguity of New Deal Economics -- 1 The Emergence of Economic Growthmanship -- 2 The Ascendancy of Growth Liberalism -- 3 Growth Liberalism Comes a Cropper, 1968 -- 4 Richard Nixon's Whig Growthmanship -- 5 The Retreat from Growth in the 1970s -- 6 The Reagan Revolution and Antistatist Growthmanship -- 7 Slow Drilling in Hard Boards -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Robert Collins' book explores the growth of America in terms of material prosperity. Collins interweaves economic history and cultural analysis onto his examination of postwar growth politics. The book contrasts the reasons for expansion and the way it has occurred in the past fifty years with the negative effects it has produced and the reactions against it. He also looks at the attitudes and behaviors that have developed as Americans have become a people of more.

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