Depression, war, and Cold War studies in political economy / Robert Higgs.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Higgs, Robert
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:	1900-1999 War > Economic aspects > United States. Depressions > 1929 > United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History. Depressions Economic history War > Economic aspects Wirtschaftspolitik Weltwirtschaftskrise > 1929-1932 Weltkrieg > 1939-1945 Kriegswirtschaft United States > Economic conditions > 20th century. United States USA
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Table of Contents:

Introduction; 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 1940-41; 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, 1945-47; 6 The Cold War Economy: Opportunity Costs, Ideology, and the Politics of Crisis.

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