文档介绍：Depression,
War,
and Cold War
Studies in Political Economy
Robert Higgs
Senior Fellow in Political Economy
The Independent Institute
1
2006
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Higgs, Robert.
Depression, war, and cold war : studies in political economy / by Robert Higgs.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 13: 978-0-19-518292-7
ISBN 0-19-518292-8
1. United States—Economic conditions—20th century. 2. War—Economic aspects—United
States. 3. Depressions—1929—United States. I. Title.
2006
’091—dc22
2005022028
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
Contents
Introduction, ix
1 Regime Uncertainty: Why the Great Depression Lasted So Long
and Why Prosperity Resumed after the War, 3
2 Private Profit, Public Risk: Institutional Antecedents of the
Modern Military Procurement System in the Rearmament
Program of 1940–41, 30
3 W