More The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America

Name: More The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
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ISBN: 9780195152630

ISBN-10: 0195152638

ISBN-13: 9780195152630

Edition: 2002

Authors: Robert M. Collins

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James Carville famously reminded Bill Clinton throughout 1992 that "it's the economy, stupid." Yet, for the last forty years, historians of modern America have ignored the economy to focus on cultural, social, and political themes, from the birth of modern feminism to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now a scholar has stepped forward to place the economy back in its rightful place, at the centre of his historical narrative. In More, Robert M. Collins re-examines the history of the United States from Franklin Delano Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, focusing on the federal government's determined pursuit of economic growth. After tracing the emergence of growth as a priority during FDR's presidency,…

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List price: $83.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Robert M. Collins is Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and is the author of More: The Politics of Growth in Postwar Americaand The Business Response to Keynes.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Prologue: The Ambiguity of New Deal Economics



The Emergence of Economic Growthmanship



The Ascendancy of Growth Liberalism



Growth Liberalism Comes a Cropper, 1968



Richard Nixon's Whig Growthmanship



The Retreat from Growth in the 1970s



The Reagan Revolution and Antistatist Growthmanship



Slow Drilling in Hard Boards


Conclusion


Notes


Index