文档介绍：More
The Politics of Economic Growth
in Postwar America
ROBERT M. COLLINS
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2000
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Collins, Robert M.
More : the politics of economic growth in postwar America / Robert M. Collins.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0–19–504646–3
1. Wealth—United States—History—20th century. 2. United States—Economic policy.
3. United States—Economic conditions—1945–. 4. Liberalism—United States—
History—20th Century. 5. National characteristics, American. I. Title.
2000
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For My Parents
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Prologue: The Ambiguity of New Deal Economics 1
1 > The Emergence of Economic Growthmanship 17
2 > The Ascendancy of Growth Liberalism 40
3 > Growth es a Cropper, 1968 68
4 > Richard Nixon’s Whig Growthmanship 98
5 > The Retreat from Growth in the 1970s 132
6 > The Reagan Revolution and Antistatist Growthmanship 166
7 > Slow Drilling in Hard Boards 214
Conclusion 233
Notes 241
Index 285
Preface
bit of personal serendipity nearly three decades ago inspired