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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higgs, Robert
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Table of 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 1940-41
  • 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, 1945-47
  • 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.